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The Sun is about 872,000 miles across. About 109 Earths could fit across the diameter of the Sun. Because the Sun is a ball of gas, it is slightly distorted and rotates faster at the center than at the poles. This makes it slightly oblate at the equator but for ...
No, the Sun is not a big red star. Actually, our Sun is a small yellow green star that is very stable and, as a result, it will have a long life over many billions ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... lives by spewing the atoms of creation throughout our solar nebula neighborhood, which helped the local gas cloud to gravitationally collapse and form the star we call the Sun. At one time, the Universe was only hydrogen and helium. All other atoms from carbon to oxygen to silicon and iron were made within the fiery core of ancient stars. Look around ... . We are indeed "star stuff" and it is no wonder that we are struggling to take the first small steps back into space, to begin the exploration of what was once our home ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, which is the closest large galaxy to Earth, is about 2.9 million light years away. Andromeda and the Milky Way are heading toward each other and will collide in about ... But the closest galaxy to us was only recently discovered, in November 2003, and is called the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. It lies in the direction of the winter constellation Canis Major (the Big Dog) and is ...
... as the Earth has a yearly orbit around the Sun, our Sun also orbits the center of our Milky Way Galaxy once every 230 million years. It is amazing to think about the fact that the last time our Sun passed through this area of the ...
The core of the Sun has a density of 5.78 pounds per inch3, which is about ten times that of lead The fact that the Sun is 109 times the diameter of the Earth with a mass more than 300,000 times greater than the Earth provides all the gravity that ...
The Sun is our nearest star and is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is a giant ball of incandescent gas 872,000 miles in diameter, which gives off energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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The power produced by the conversion of hydrogen into helium in the core of the Sun, which is called fusion, replenishes all the heat and energy that the Sun gives off into space.
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The Sun is a stable, middle-aged star that has allowed our solar system to develop life on Earth over the last 4.6 billion years. It will last many more billions of years ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... instruments on the Moon, and a special laser at the McDonald Observatory in western Texas bounces a laser off these instruments. Careful measurement of the results has shown us that the Moon is moving slowly ... Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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