What are?
This consists of the Sun and its family of eight planets.
What is our solar system?
This is the centre of our solar system. The eight planets revolve around it.
What is the Sun?
Called the morning or evening star, this planet appears int hesky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem (to some people) to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
These chunks of rock and metal orbit the Sun between the planets.
What are asteroids?
This is the galaxy in which we live.
What is the Milky Way?
Fifth from the Sun, this is the largest planet. It is best known for its beautiful colours and its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
These have bright heads and long, shining tails. They shine partly because of light absorbed and reradiated from the Sun, and partly because of reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
These loose collections of rocks and frozen gases orbit the Sun between the planets.
What are comets?
This the planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
Sixth from the Sun, this planet is best known for the beautiful system of rings that encircle it.
What is Saturn?
this is how long it takes the moon to orbit the Earth.
What is 24 hours?
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects the light of the Sun.
What is a planet?
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What is a moon?
Once considered a planet, scientists now call this a "dwarf planet".
What is Pluto?
Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. Seventh from the Sun, in is greenish in colour, and has nine faint rings and five moons orbiting it.
What is Uranus?
This is how long it takes Earth to orbit the sun.
What is 365 days?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
This body orbits around Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
This planet is eighth from the Sun and cona only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
This is our study of outer space.
What is astronomy?