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Stars come in a variety of colors, based on their surface temperatures. The coolest stars are red and the hottest are bluish-white to the eye. In between you will find some that are orange and others that are yellow ...

Venus's clouds are yellowish-brown due to the sulfur content. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image: ...

... —or because they produce their own light, like light bulbs, the Sun, and the stars. We see people by the visible light that they reflect so people in space will ... dark like sunglasses so that you cannot see the person at all. Finally, when people are in space, they often seem weightless so they may look funny. They may be floating ... they do on Earth. This may make people look happier in space, even if they are not smiling If you can't picture this, have a friend take a picture of ...

... . Our space modules are pressurized with an atmosphere similar to that on Earth, made-up of a ratio of oxygen and nitrogen (1:4) for breathing. This is what we call a shirt-sleeve environment, so there will be no need for air helmets or spacesuits when you are inside, unless there is an emergency ... air-tight, so breathable air will not leak out to space. With inflatable modules, there are multiple layers of air bladders built to keep the air inside the module, while a ...

Some stars are close and some are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The star Proxima Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system, is a ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

... came closer than a certain well-defined distance would the force of gravity deviate from what would be predicted by a simple application of Newton's law. ---- Answer provided by Jim ...

... water ice, plus frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide). Some areas are very bright and ice-covered; other areas are much darker and covered in some sort of dirt. We don't ... bring a piece of the planet home. It will be a long time before we are able to do that. Fortunately there's a lot we can learn without bringing any ...

... materials that go into making a robot—aluminum and titanium—and sometimes there are composite materials, like those found in airplane construction. The types of materials used to build ...

... pass many medical tests and complete years of schooling before they submit their applications and are invited for astronaut job interviews. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss Image:K2S ...

Many scientists are asking this question. Some believe that because a life form developed on another planet it ...

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