įun Kids, the UK’s children’s radio station, is sending you to space! Answer a few questions about yourself to participate in our very special space broadcast: a radio programme that’ll be streamed to the stars on February 21st 2022. You can send your voice to space through Mission Transmission. This makes Venus the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon It is usually the first ‘star’ you will spot. Yellow clouds made of sulfur cover the entire planet causing light from the sun to reflect off the surface meaning we can often see it at night. You can also sometimes see Venus, which is also known as the evening or morning star. For example we have all seen the sun and our moon. You can see some of The Solar System from Earth. On the night of 23rd September 1846 astronomers discovered Neptune through a telescope. Neptune was the last planet to be discovered. Neptune was the last planet to be discovered in The Solar System The first four planets are called terrestrial. There is also 552,894 asteroids and 3,083 comets in The Solar System! 9. From closest to farthest from the Sun, they are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Currently Jupiter and Saturn both have 53 confirmed moons but they also both have more than 30 moons NASA haven’t confirmed. Scientists are always discovering more moons in The Solar System and arguing over whether Saturn or Jupiter have more moons. By comparison Earth’s average temperature is 15☌. The hottest planet is Venus with an average temperature of 460☌ and the coldest planet is Uranus with an average temperature -220☌. Planets in our Solar System are different temperatures All planets, as well as the Sun, are balls too. We now know, and can prove through satellite pictures, that it is a sphere. Once upon a time people thought the Earth was flat. All planets and the Sun in the Solar System are shaped like balls That’s the same as taking 1000 trips to Australia! Even though it’s so far away the light from the Sun only takes 8 minutes to travel to the Earth. The Sun is 93 million miles from the Earth There are over 700 known systems of planets orbiting stars. That’s at least 30 times more stars in The Milky Way than there are people on Earth. The solar system is part of the Milky Way, There are at least between 250 to 500 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy – there might even be more. The Solar System is part of The Milky Way The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed around it. The Solar System was formed 4.6 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula.Ī shock wave from a nearby supernova (big star) explosion probably started it. The Solar System formed 4.6 Billion years ago
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