Different types of stars – Astronomy – Space
The Eagle Nebula Stars don't last forever, though they do last for billions of years. And they don't stay the same throughout their existence - they change over time. The [...]
The Eagle Nebula Stars don't last forever, though they do last for billions of years. And they don't stay the same throughout their existence - they change over time. The [...]
What are stars made of? This is just one of the stars: the sun from space The first stars The earliest stars probably formed only a few hundred thousand years [...]
Saturn, as seen from space After Jupiter, Saturn is the next farthest planet out from our Sun. In some ways, Saturn is a lot like Jupiter - it's very cold, and it's mostly made [...]
What are planets? The planet Venus from space Before there were planets For several hundred million years after the Big Bang, there were no planets, only stars. Planets couldn't form until the [...]
Neptune from space Neptune is the farthest planet from our Sun. Neptune is the only planet that is so far away that you can't see it without a telescope. Neptune (NEPP-toon) is [...]
The Eagle Nebula A nebula is a bunch of atoms and molecules floating in outer space, like a cloud of dust. More than one nebula are called nebulae, because -ae is the plural ending [...]
Earth's moon (about 239,000 miles from Earth) (That's almost ten times as far as going all the way around the Earth) Where did the moon come from? Nobody knows exactly [...]
This truck has a lot of mass, and it's going fast, so it has a lot of momentum Momentum describes how strong a moving thing is. Things that aren't moving [...]
Lyrid meteor shower What is a meteor? Meteors or meteorites are bits of rock (like granite) and ice - usually a mixture of rock and iron and nickel but sometimes just rock or [...]
Mercury from space Which planet is Mercury? Mercury is the closest planet to our Sun. At some parts of its orbit, Mercury is only about 46 million kilometers away from the sun. The [...]