Fun Facts

By Delta Williams
LTEC 4100

Jupiter and Saturn are the two largest planets in the solar system.

The

sun, is

Space, Planets, and Stars

actually

Our Solar
System

a giant
star!
And one million Earths could fit
inside of it!
The moon has much weaker

gravity than the Earth, therefore

on the moon you would weigh

much less!

Comets actually have two

tails: a dust tail and a plasma

tail.
By Delta Williams

Space
Space is big and vast. Our solar system was
formed about 4.6 billion years ago. It is made up
of dust, gas, stars, planets, comets, asteroids,
moons, and the list goes on and on. There is still
a lot that we have to learn about space and galaxies but we are exploring it more and more every

There are nine planets in our solar system. These nine

Believe it or not stars started in nurseries just like

planets, including ours, circle around the sun. This cir-

you! A star nursery is called a Nebula and for a

cle is called an orbit. The names of these nine planets,

Nebula to create a start it takes millions and

in order, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Sat-

sometimes billions of years! After being born in

urn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The nine planets are

the nebula by gravity and particles the star devel-

broken up into two groups: The Inner Solar System and

ops into a yellow Dwarf. The start appears yellow

year. Comets are made of ice, dust, and small

rocky particles. They orbit the sun just as the
planets do but they are not always visible. Asteroids are made of rock, metal, and other organic
material. These are similar to comets but they are
not visible with a tail. A meteoroid is just a small

rock or particle of debris from our solar system.

Meteoroids sometimes head towards Earth but
they are always burned up in Earths atmosphere.
Moons are made of rock and other hard materials. Usually
moons are asteroids that
flew too close
to a planet and

then sucked
into the planets
gravitational
pull. Our moon
is about 4.5 billion years old!

Stars

Planets

the Outer Solar Sys-

because it is heating itself up to move onto the

tem. The Inner Solar

next stage which is the Red Giant. The Red Giant

System is Mercury,

is a little cooler than the yellow dwarf giving it that

Venus, Earth, and

reddish color,

Mars; these are some-

however it is

times called the ter-

also expand-

restrial planets. The

ing. After

Outer Solar System is

another many

Jupiter, Saturn, Ura-

years a star

nus, and Neptune;

becomes a

these are sometimes called the gases giants. Pluto is a

white dwarf.

little tricky. Some scientist dont consider it a planet

It will be ex-

anymore, but in this class we will! Between these two

tremely

groups of planets is the asteroid belt. The Inner planets

dense but not

are made up of solids and rock material while the inner

very bright. It

planets are made up mostly of Gas. Also circling each

is white because it is cooling down. The last stage

planet is a moon. We know that Earth just has one

is the black dwarf. This star is no longer shining

moon, however some planets have 14 moons or more!

and has become cold, and therefore it is unable to

The moons orbit around the planets just like the plan-

be seen.

ets orbit around the sun.