Stars and Constellations
Fast facts about stars
Seeing Stars (video)
Why do stars twinkle? (video)
Stars being born (video)
When a star dies (video)
Find out what constellations you can see during different months
Hubble Satellite shows Tonight's Sky
What are those Star Pictures?
Bill Nye on Constellations
Star Signs...The Facts
Cyber Case Star Gazing
Asteroids and Meteoriods - (Zula video)
More about Galaxies
Seeing Stars (video)
Why do stars twinkle? (video)
Stars being born (video)
When a star dies (video)
Find out what constellations you can see during different months
Hubble Satellite shows Tonight's Sky
What are those Star Pictures?
Bill Nye on Constellations
Star Signs...The Facts
Cyber Case Star Gazing
Asteroids and Meteoriods - (Zula video)
More about Galaxies
The Sun
Watch what happens when the sun sneezes! (video)
Inside our Sun a deeper look.
The sun, is it perfect? (video)
Birth of a solar system (video)
Bill Nye on the Sun (video)
Earth, sun, and moon's orbits experiment
Coronal aurora over Fairbanks, Alaska (1/22/12)
What is the sun made of? (song)
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Inside our Sun a deeper look.
The sun, is it perfect? (video)
Birth of a solar system (video)
Bill Nye on the Sun (video)
Earth, sun, and moon's orbits experiment
Coronal aurora over Fairbanks, Alaska (1/22/12)
What is the sun made of? (song)
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Ten Cool Facts about the Sun
1. The sun is a star. The sun provides us with energy, which brings life on our planet.
2. The sun is the closest star to our planet.
3. The Earth orbits around the sun.
4. The sun is way bigger than the Earth.
5.The sun’s average surface temperature is 5700 C. Compare that to the Earth’s average temperature, which is 20 C.
6. The sun is 150 million km (93 million miles) away from the Earth.
7. How old is the sun? Can you imagine 4.5 billion years?
8. We know that the Earth’s structure consists of different layers. The sun also has layers but unlike the Earth, the sun is entirely gaseous; there is no solid surface.
9. The sun rotates on its axis approximately once every 26 days.
10. The sun changes. No matter when or where we look at the sun, we will always see something interesting. Scientists observe these changes by watching the sunspots. They increase and decrease on a regular cycle of about 10.8 years.
2. The sun is the closest star to our planet.
3. The Earth orbits around the sun.
4. The sun is way bigger than the Earth.
5.The sun’s average surface temperature is 5700 C. Compare that to the Earth’s average temperature, which is 20 C.
6. The sun is 150 million km (93 million miles) away from the Earth.
7. How old is the sun? Can you imagine 4.5 billion years?
8. We know that the Earth’s structure consists of different layers. The sun also has layers but unlike the Earth, the sun is entirely gaseous; there is no solid surface.
9. The sun rotates on its axis approximately once every 26 days.
10. The sun changes. No matter when or where we look at the sun, we will always see something interesting. Scientists observe these changes by watching the sunspots. They increase and decrease on a regular cycle of about 10.8 years.