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Choose a Subject!  The Milky Way The Milky Way  My Sundial My Sundial  Constellations Constellations  The Universe The Universe  The Sun The Sun  My Model My Model

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The Sun  Distance from Earth: 93,750,000 miles  Diameter: 865,000 miles Next Slide

Mercury  Distance from the Sun: 36,000,000 miles  Diameter: 3,100 miles  Revolving time around the Sun: 88 Earth days  Spinning time on its own axis: 59 Earth days  Number of Moons: 0 Next Slide

Venus  Distance from the Sun: 67,000,000  Diameter:7,570  Revolving time around the Sun: 225 Earth days  Spinning time on its own axis: 243 Earth days  Number of Moons: 0 Next Slide

Earth  Distance from the Sun: 93,000,000  Diameter: 7,900  Revolving time around the Sun: Earth days.  Spinning time on its own axis: 1 Earth day.  Number of Moons: 1 Next Slide

Mars  Distance from the Sun: 142,000,000  Diameter: 4,222  Revolving time around the Sun: 687 Earth days  Spinning time on its own axis: 24 hours 37 minutes  Number of Moons: 2 Next Slide

Jupiter  Distance from the Sun: 483,000,000  Diameter: 88,700  Revolving time around the Sun: 12 Earth Years.  Spinning time on its own axis: 9 hours 51 minutes  Number of Moons: More than 16 Next Slide

Saturn  Distance from the Sun: 889,000,000  Diameter: 75,000  Revolving time around the Sun: 29.5 Earth Years  Spinning time on its own axis: 10 hours 14 minutes  Number of Moons: More than 18 Next Slide

Uranus  Distance from the Sun: 1,800,000,000  Diameter: 32,000  Revolving time around the Sun: 84 Earth Years  Spinning time on its own axis: 16 hours  Number of Moons: More than 15 Next Slide

Neptune  Distance from the Sun: 2,800,000,000  Diameter: 30,800  Revolving time around the Sun: 165 Earth years  Spinning time on its own axis: Just over 16 hours  Number of Moons: More than 8 Next Slide

Pluto  Distance from the Sun: 3,700,000,000  Diameter: 1,400  Revolving time around the Sun: Earth years  Spinning time on its own axis:6.5 Earth days  Number of Moons: 1 Home

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What Is a Constellation? A constellation is a group of stars that form a picture or a symbol. Every country has different ways of seeing the constellations. Most of them don’t look like what they actually are. People see them in different ways than you might. This means that everyone is different. Next Slide

Andromeda  Abbreviation: And  Translation: Princess of Ethiopia or the Chained Lady Position in the Sky  Best seen in November (at 9:00 PM) Named Stars  ALPHERATZ (Alpha And)  MIRACH (Beta And)  ALMAAK (Gamma 1 And)  Adhil (Xi And) Next Slide

Phoenix  Abbreviation: Phe  Genitive: Phoenicis  Translation: The Phoenix Position in the Sky  Right Ascension: 1 hour  Declination: -50 degrees  Visible between latitudes 30 and -90 degrees  Best seen in November (at 9:00 PM)  Named Stars  ANKAA (Alpha Phe) Next Slide

How Many Constellations are there? There are approximately 82 Constellations. Home

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What are galaxies? ? ? 1.2. Next Slide

The Answer Is Galaxies are large systems of stars, dust and gas bound together by gravitational force. Chocolate! Not Chocolate! 2 Next Slide

How is is light produced?: Nuclear Theory. The Nuclear combinations go like this:  1Hydrogen+1Hydrogen=1Helium  1Helium+1Helium=... After all those combinations you get Iron ? Next Slide

How long does it take for light to reach Earth? From the suns core it takes 250,000,000 years to reach the crust. From the suns crust it takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth. Next Slide

What are sunspots?  Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions Home

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By Adam Parkinson in San Pedro de Alecantara Marbella Malaga Spain