ALL ABOUT SPACE!! By Roksana Siecinska

Planet Mercury Did you know that Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun? Mercury is hard to see but when it is the Eclipse you can see it clearly if you are in space or if you have a telescope.Thirteen times a century, Mercury can be observed from the Earth passing across the face of the Sun in an event called a transit. The next will occur on the 9th May Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. Mercury is very dense. It is the second densest planet in the solar system. Would you like to learn more about other planets? Keep reading to find out more about our Solar System.

Planet Venus Venus is the second planet away from the Sun and is the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Venus is the second largest terrestrial planet and is sometimes referred to as the Earth’s sister planet due the their similar size and mass. The planet’s orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days, compared to the Earth’s 365. Terrestrial planet is like an Earth. The planet’s orbit around the Sun takes 225 Earth days, compared to the Earth’s 365. While its size and mass are similar to Earth, the small asteroids are crushed when entering its atmosphere, meaning no small craters lie on the surface of the planet. The pressure felt by a human on the surface would be equivalent to that experienced deep beneath the sea on Earth.

Planet Earth Earth is the place where we live. We have to care for the nature and all the creatures that live with us. Earth is the third planet away from the Sun and it is the largest of the terrestrial planets! Do you know anything about the planet Earth? The Earth takes a year to do a full turn, which does a half turn evey six months.

Planet Mars Do you think there is life on Mars? There is evidence that show there is life on mars. Mars is the fourth planet away from the Sun named after the Roman God. There is life in space. Pictures taken in 1900 think they have seen alien life. There is some opinion about aliens living on the Mars but we don’t know that for sure. They are just theories of people.

Planet Jupiter Do you know anything about the planet of gas, Jupiter? Well, as you may now know it’s the planet of gas and if you want to know more about it then read on! Did you know that Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets due to the fact it is the brightest planet in space. Scientists are still not sure how many stars there are in space as its impossible to count them all howerver, with bigger telescope you can see more stars that shine a little bit less brighter than others. Hope you learnt more about Jupiter.

Planet Saturn Do you know anything about the planet Saturn? Saturn is the fifth brightest planet in space due to the fact it is also named after the Roman’s God Sartunus. Saturn makes a turn every 10 hourse and 34 seconds. Saturn has four main groups of rings and three fainter, narrower ring groups. These groups are separated by gaps called divisions.

Planet Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet away from the Sun. Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel in Every 17 hours 14 seconds it does a full turn. It is too dim to have been seen by ancient civilisations. At first Herschel thought it was a comet, but several years later it was confirmed as a planet. Herscal tried to have his discovery named “Georgian Sidus” after King George III. The name Uranus was suggested by astronomer Johann Bode. The name comes from the ancient Greek deity Ouranos.

Planet Neptune Neptune is the eight planet away from the sun making it the most distant in the solar system. This gas giant planet may have formed much closer to the Sun in early solar system history before migrating to its present position. Neptune was not known to the ancients. It is not visible to the naked eye and was first observed in Its position was determined using mathematical predictions. It was named after the Roman’s God of the sea. Neptune spins on its axis very rapidly: Its equatorial clouds take 18 hours to make one rotation. This is because Neptune is not solid body. Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants: Despite being smaller than Uranus, Neptune has a greater mass. Below its heavy atmosphere, Uranus is made of layers of hydrogen, helium, and methane gases. They enclose a layer of water, ammonia and methane ice. The inner core of the planet is made of rock.

Planet Pluto Discovered in 1930, Pluto is the second closest dwarf planet to the Sun and was at one point classified as the ninth planet. Pluto is the largest dwarf planet but only the second most massive, with Eris being the most massive. Pluto is named after the Greek’s God of the underworld: This is a later name for the more well known Hades and was proposed by Venetia Burney an eleven year old schoolgirl from Oxford, England. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006: This is when the IAU formalized the definition of a planet as “A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.” Pluto was discovered on February 18th, 1930 by the Lowell Observatory: For the 76 years between Pluto being discovered and the time it was reclassified as a dwarf planet it completed under a third of its orbit around the Sun.

Sun One million Earths could fit inside the Sun: If a hollow Sun was filled up with spherical Earths then around 960,000 would fit inside. On the other hand if these Earths were squished inside with no wasted space then around 1,300,000 would fit inside. The Sun’s surface area is 11,990 times that of the Earth’s. Eventually, the Sun will consume the Earth: When all the Hydrogen has been burned, the Sun will continue for about 130 million more years, burning Helium, during which time it will expand to the point that it will engulf Mercury and Venus and the Earth. At this stage it will have become a red giant.

Moon The Moon (or Luna) is the Earth’s only natural satellite and was formed 4.6 billion years ago around some 30–50 million years after the formation of the solar system. The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The first unmanned mission to the Moon was in 1959 by the Soviet Lunar Program with the first manned landing being Apollo 11 in The dark side of the moon is a myth: In reality both sides of the Moon see the same amount of sunlight however only one face of the Moon is ever seen from Earth. This is because the Moon rotates around on its own axis in exactly the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, meaning the same side is always facing the Earth. The side facing away from Earth has only been seen by the human eye from spacecraft.

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