if i were standing on pluto, would i be seeing the same stars say if i was on mercury?
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Not really. Some of them would be the same, but others would be different. Here's an example. If you're looking out your front window, do you see the same things as your neighbors when they look out their front window? Your viewpoints will be different, so you'll see some things the same and some things not the same.
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The distance between Earth and Pluto varies as the two planets move around their orbits. When they are closest, they are about 29 A.U. apart; at most, the distance is about 51 A.U. Since light travels about 300,000 kilometers each second, it would take light anywhere between 8 hours and 14 hours to make the round-trip journey to Pluto from Earth.\n\nRadio signals travel at the same speed as light. If you were using radio signals to control a robot on Pluto, you would have to be very patient. If you sent your robot a command to move, the command would arrive at least 4 hours later. Then, if your robot took a picture and sent it back to Earth, it would take at least 4 more hours before you could see that picture! \n\n\n\nAU\n\nAU, which stands for "astronomical unit", is a unit for measuring distance. One AU is the average distance from the Sun's center to the Earth's center. It is equal to 149,597,871 km (92,955,807 miles).\n\nAUs are often more convenient to use than kilometers when measuring large distances such as those in space. In this case kilometers are just too small - it would be like measuring the distance from Boston to San Francisco in inches. AUs simply make a measurement easier to understand and give you something to compare it to.\n\nFor example, Saturn's orbit around the Sun has an average radius of 9.5 AU, which means that Saturn is about ten times farther from the Sun than Earth is. The average distance from the Sun to distant Pluto is about 40 AU. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, orbits at an average distance of 0.39 AU.\n\nAUs are generally used for measurements of distances within our Solar System. Distances to stars are much larger, and are expressed in terms of light years. One light year is equal to more than 63,000 AUs. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is just over 4 light years away.\n\nAlthough Pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant planet delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. Today Pluto remains the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft, yet an increasing amount of information is unfolding about this peculiar planet. The uniqueness of Pluto's orbit, rotational relationship with its satellite, spin axis, and light variations all give the planet a certain appeal.\n\nPluto is usually farther from the Sun than any of the nine planets; however, due to the eccentricity of its orbit, it is closer than Neptune for 20 years out of its 249 year orbit. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit January 21, 1979, made its closest approach September 5, 1989, and will remain within the orbit of Neptune until February 11, 1999. This will not occur again until September 2226.\n\nAs Pluto approaches perihelion it reaches its maximum distance from the ecliptic due to its 17-degree inclination. Thus, it is far above or below the plane of Neptune's orbit. Under these conditions, Pluto and Neptune will not collide and do not approach closer than 18 A.U. to one another.\n\nPluto's rotation period is 6.387 days, the same as its satellite Charon. Although it is common for a satellite to travel in a synchronous orbit with its planet, Pluto is the only planet to rotate synchronously with the orbit of its satellite. Thus being tidally locked, Pluto and Charon continuously face each other as they travel through space.\n\nUnlike most planets, but similar to Uranus, Pluto rotates with its poles almost in its orbital plane. Pluto's rotational axis is tipped 122 degrees. When Pluto was first discovered, its relatively bright south polar region was the view seen from the Earth. Pluto appeared to grow dim as our viewpoint gradually shifted from nearly pole-on in 1954 to nearly equator-on in 1973. Pluto's equator is now the view seen from Earth.\n\nDuring the period from 1985 through 1990, Earth was aligned with the orbit of Charon around Pluto such that an eclipse could be observed every Pluto day. This provided opportunity to col
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They won't, because their orbits are so different. Pluto intersects the solar system's ecliptic, or orbital plane, twice as its orbit brings it "above," then "below" that plane where most of the other planets' revolve -- including Neptune. And, though they are neighbors Pluto and Neptune are always more than a billion miles apart.
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Pluto facts:\n\nDiscovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona where Northern Arizona University is located.  This observatory was initially used to look for canals on Mars.\n\nIt is debated as a planet, because it does not fit the density patterns observed from other planets in the solar system.\n\nIt has an atmosphere, which is odd given its size.\n\nIts moon, Charon, is actually located within its atmosphere, which almost makes it a double planet.\n\nIt is approximately 40 AU from the sun, which is 40 times the distance between the sun and the earth.\n\nPluto may not be the last planet in the solar system, as there is evidence of a planet, known as Xena.\n\nAfter the discovery of Neptune, some people were still concerned over a variation in gravitational forces, and the search began.\n\nPhotos of Pluto were taken in 1915 and were not discovered for almost 15 years.\n\nPluto has the highest eccentric orbit of the known planets, that is it is much more elliptical rather than circular.\n\nIs this enough?
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Actually a number of planets and stars are easily visible...but I assume you're being metaphorical, which is perfectly fine.
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You might have seen a planet if it was bright, but also a lot of stars are red.  Cooler stars give off a red color.  There is nothing unusual about it.
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No.\n\nThe orbits are inclined slightly and I do not believe there is a place where they would all be *exacly* in a line.\n\nBut they get close together in the sky. The visible planets are within a couple of degrees every twenty or thirty years. (Holding your fist out will block about 10 degrees.) Such an alignment in the sky can last for a few days.
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I have been doing a presentation on Pluto is not a planet.\n\nI put up a bulletin board with the pictures of the planets with special pages showing Ceres, Pluto, and Eris.
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In their current orbits, Pluto and Neptune will never collide, since Pluto is in a 3-to-2 resonance with Neptune.  That means that for every two orbits of Pluto, Neptune executes three orbits; thus, they’re never close to one another in their trips around the Sun (instead, Neptune is always 90 degrees ahead of or behind Pluto when Pluto is closest to the Sun).  Even though the orbits of Neptune and Pluto seem to overlap, they will never actually collide.\n\nMany of the newly-discovered objects (hundreds of ’em now) out near Pluto have these kinds of resonances.  If they didn’t, they’d be more likely to collide with Neptune, and Neptune is probably responsible for shepherding them into these stable configurations.\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.  Sometimes...Uranus, Pluto, Neptune.  Pluto has an unusual orbit.  Sometimes it crosses Neptune's path, making it closer to the sun than Neptune.
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If you were to stand on Mercury, the Sun would appear two and a half times bigger than it appears on Earth.
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Yes, the general consensus appears to be that another planet has been found, which is currently designated 2003 UB313, it is about 2,800km across - a world of rock and ice and somewhat larger than Pluto. Scientists say it is three times as far away as Pluto, in an orbit at an angle to the orbits of the main planets. \n\nThough it should also be understood that the scientific community are also considering a redefinition of planet, which might reclassify not only this new 10th planet and Pluto has not being planets.
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Planets and stars can both twinkle, its called astronomical scintillation.  In short it is caused by fluctuation in air density and temperature.  Since stars and light both send light to earth (planets reflect a stars light whereas the star produces it's own) the twinkling effect can be seen in either.  And thus if you were standing on another planet, it IS possible that earth would appear to twinkle.  It's not guarenteed, but if the light coming from earth passed through some varying densities and temperatures it could appear to twinkle.  Refer to this article for more on "twinkling":\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_%28astronomy%29
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Planets do not follow the same exact pathway. They are farther away from the sun. However, they still do rotate around the sun. (If they were in the same line, the planets would collide) The farther out the planets are, the longer time it takes them to revolve around the sun. This is why pluto takes an extremely long time to revolve once around, while the Earth year is only 365 days. Mercury has a year even SHORTER than the earth@
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The night sky will appear differently to you in different years, at different times of the year, and different times of the night.\n\nThe stars appear to move across the sky each night, just as the sun does during the day, rising in the east and setting in the west.\n\nThe planets move about the sky along a path called the ecliptic, and are seen in different positions against the background of stars. Planets will be shown only on starmaps that are showing "current" conditions.\n\nIn addition, from month to month you will see a different part of the night sky, as the earth moves around the sun. The stars you see in the night sky in November are hidden from view by the sun in May.\n\nAnd of course, over the eons, the "fixed" stars are changing their positions in the sky.
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This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 4.4 billion km (2.6 billion mi) from Earth. Hubble's corrected optics show the two objects as clearly separate and sharp disks. This has allowed astronomers to measure (to within about 1 percent) Pluto's diameter of 2320 km (1440 mi) and Charon's diameter of 1270 km (790 mi). The Hubble observations show that Charon is bluer than Pluto. This means that both worlds have different surface composition and structure. A bright highlight on Pluto suggests it has a smoothly reflecting surface layer.
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I think youd see a new planet ;)