Astronomy

By Alex
Astronomy is the scientific study
and observation of the universe
beyond earth including:
stars,planets,comets and
galaxies.
 Galaxies

Elliptical
Spiral
Barred
spiral
.

• There are 36 galaxies.

 Inner Planets

Mars: Named
Earth: after the
Venus: The Named Roman god. It
Mercury: The Roman water or means blood
Roman god. god of love oceans. and war.
He is swift. and
beauty.
 Outer Planets
Gas Giants

Neptune:
Uranus:
Jupiter: Saturn: The
named
Roman Roman Roman
father
king of god of god of
of
the gods. farming. the sea.
Greek
gods.
• I think Pluto is a planet because it is a
“Dwarf “Planet so it is considered to me
as a planet. If it is not a planet it should
be called a rock or a comet or
something like that.Why would it be
called a dwarf planet? It sounds like a
planet. Right?
• Day and night happens when the earth
goes rotates around the sun.Then the
sun hits the earth and makes day and
night.
• Seasons happen when the earth orbits
the sun and we are pointing away from
the sun and pointing toward the moon.
We get the sun because we rotate on
our axis and we get some sun.
• Gravity pulls everything down. It pulls
your house, soil, animals, you, etc.
Gravity
pushes on
earth.

Gravity pulls you

down.
– The moon orbits us.
It also rotates. It
takes 28 or 27 earth
days [ or a month].
The suns light
bounces off the
moon to make it light
up.
• Lunar Eclipses happens when the Earth
casts a shadow on the moon. Pretty much
the Earth blocks the moon.

The earth
The sun The moon

This is what it
looks like
A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks us from
the sun.

This is what it looks

like.
 Stars and constellations
Ursa Ursa Orion [The
• A constellation is Major Minor hunter]
when a few stars [Big [Little
Dipper] Dipper]
make a picture or a
[The [The
pattern. Great Little
Bear Bear

Leo Cassi- Taurus

[The opeia [ The Bull
lion] [The
Queen]
Here are a few
constellations.
• Perseus is bordered by Aries , Taurus ,
Andromeda , Cassiopeia , Triangulum , Auriga
, Camelopardalis.
 Uranus vs. Mars
• Mars & Uranus have a lot in common and not
in common. Mars is red Uranus is blue. Mars
is rock Uranus is gas & dust. Mars is a inner
planet & Uranus is a outer. Mars is tilted
Uranus is sideways. Mars has 2 moons
Uranus has 8.
• They both have color there both planets and
they both have moons.
 The sun
The sun is the center of our solar system.
It actually the closest star to us at8.317
min.But it is not the biggest star.It is
about 1,392,000.The size to fit 109 or
less Earths.It is made of hydrogen ,
helium , iron , oxygen , carbon & neon.It
has 3 cores.