Cosmos:elementary | Distance to the Sun / Myths and reality. How we actually measure it. Crepuscular rays. @Cosmos_elementary | Uploaded November 2018 | Updated October 2024, 27 minutes ago.
Nowadays there are some people who claim that the Sun is only a few thousand kilometers away. In this video we are going to find out how distance to the sun and some other bodies is measured, and why those conspitacy claims are false.
Sources:
https://wciom.ru/zh/print_q.php?s_id=710&q_id=51379&date=30.01.2011
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/154951/why-do-sunbeams-diverge-even-though-the-sun-is-much-more-than-a-few-kilometers-a
metabunk.org/explained-why-clouds-appear-behind-the-sun-and-moon.t7084
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/disclaimer/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/87-how-do-you-measure-the-distance-between-earth-and-the-sun-intermediate
web.archive.org/web/20150703111716/solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sun&Display=Facts
space.com/17081-how-far-is-earth-from-the-sun.html
https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/32207/
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/the-earth/62-our-solar-system/planets-and-dwarf-planets/venus/262-how-did-a-transit-of-venus-provide-astronomers-with-the-first-measurement-of-the-earth-sun-distance-intermediate
universetoday.com/117843/how-did-we-find-the-distance-to-the-sun
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Svenus1.htm
eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/VenusOrbit.html
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1969SvA....12..796G/0000796.000.html
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JZ066i012p04303
Crepuscular_rays_over_Plymouth_Sound.jpg: Nilfanion
derivative work: Herby
Nowadays there are some people who claim that the Sun is only a few thousand kilometers away. In this video we are going to find out how distance to the sun and some other bodies is measured, and why those conspitacy claims are false.
Sources:
https://wciom.ru/zh/print_q.php?s_id=710&q_id=51379&date=30.01.2011
physics.stackexchange.com/questions/154951/why-do-sunbeams-diverge-even-though-the-sun-is-much-more-than-a-few-kilometers-a
metabunk.org/explained-why-clouds-appear-behind-the-sun-and-moon.t7084
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/disclaimer/41-our-solar-system/the-earth/orbit/87-how-do-you-measure-the-distance-between-earth-and-the-sun-intermediate
web.archive.org/web/20150703111716/solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Sun&Display=Facts
space.com/17081-how-far-is-earth-from-the-sun.html
https://www.nkj.ru/archive/articles/32207/
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/the-earth/62-our-solar-system/planets-and-dwarf-planets/venus/262-how-did-a-transit-of-venus-provide-astronomers-with-the-first-measurement-of-the-earth-sun-distance-intermediate
universetoday.com/117843/how-did-we-find-the-distance-to-the-sun
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Svenus1.htm
eaae-astronomy.org/WG3-SS/WorkShops/VenusOrbit.html
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1969SvA....12..796G/0000796.000.html
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JZ066i012p04303
Crepuscular_rays_over_Plymouth_Sound.jpg: Nilfanion
derivative work: Herby
