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The Milky Way Galaxy is very large, any way you look at it. It is about 100,000 light years across. That's really big. Our solar system orbits the galaxy, similar to the way the Earth orbits the Sun. The galaxy is so big that we have ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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Our solar system is much bigger than you probably think. Pluto, the farthest planet, is about 3.5 billion miles away. If the Sun were the size of a bowling ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... miles across from side to side, or 25,000 miles around the equator, which is pretty big—a modern jetliner takes nearly two days to fly around it. But an astronaut ... planets such as Jupiter, which is 11 times bigger than Earth. The Earth is almost a perfect sphere but is slightly flattened at the poles, so there is a difference of 25 miles in ...
Jupiter is about 2.5 times more massive than all of the other planets in our solar system combined. It has a diameter eleven times greater than Earth's and a planetary volume of over 1300 times that of Earth's. While Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, scientists have recently discovered planets in other solar systems that are ...
... study meteorites, some of the oldest rocks in the solar system, to learn about how and when our Sun and planets were created. Some of these meteorites are 4.6 billion years old According to current theories, Uranus and all of the planets in our solar system are slightly younger—about 4.5 billion years old.
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... determine that our observable Universe has a radius of about 13.7 billion light years plus or minus 200 million light years. This is an incredible achievement for humans—from our position on Earth in a galaxy called the Milky Way, scientists called cosmologists have been able to gauge the size of our entire Universe ...
... what we can see within our Universe (due to the limiting factor of the speed of light) is about 13.7 billion light years That number is so big that I can't even ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... 100 times more, has a width of 150 feet with its solar cells extended, and is as tall as a house.
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Gravity is very important to our life on Earth. Without gravity, we would simply float around with nothing to keep our feet on the ground. Have you ever let a balloon go and ... fly away into the heavens? If we didn't have gravity, when we went outside our houses, we would float away, just like that balloon.
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Pluto is about 70 percent as big as the Earth's Moon, or 18 percent as big as the Earth. It's the smallest planet but is twice the size of the largest asteroid ...
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