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A star is a massive,bright,sphere of very hot gas called plasma which is held together by it's own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the sun and each galaxy has billions of stars. Stars are usually between 1 and 10 billion years old. Some stars may even be close to the age of the observed Universe at nearly 13.8 billion years old. The light from stars takes millions of years to reach Earth, therefore when you look at the stars you are literally looking back in time. Stars range in color depending on how hot they are, in order from lowest to highest temperature they are can be brown, red, orange, yellow, white, or blue in color. There are approximately 200-400 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy alone. As a star is near the end of its life, it begins to change the helium into heavier chemical elements, such carbon and oxygen, and the star will begin to change color, density, mass and size.

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There are 8 planets in our solar system, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars ,Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Neptune and Uranus the other 6 planets can be seen unaided and all 8 are visible with a small telescope or binoculars

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Earth is bombarded with millions of tons of space material each day. Most of the objects vaporize in our atmosphere, but some of the larger pieces actually fall to the ground. Most of the objects come from asteroids, which are objects made of various types of rock and have existed since the origin of the solar system.  A small rocky or metallic chunk of material that travels through space is called a meteoroid. Very small meteoroids (the size of dust) are often referred to as space dust. As a meteoroid travels through our atmosphere, it is heated by friction. That causes it to glow, and if this happens at night, we see a long streak of light known as a meteor. If the object survives the trip and falls to Earth’s surface, it is known as a meteorite. Many of these fall into the ocean (since about 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water). The rest fall on land, where they await discovery by meteorite hunters.Also m illions of meteoroids travel through Earth’s atmosphere each day and w hen a meteor encounters our atmosphere and is vaporized, it leaves behind a trail. That “burning” meteoroid is called a meteor. Astroids are not the only thing that hits earth

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Discovery Channel - Large Asteroid Impact Simulation

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Asteroids are small, rocky solar system bodies. Asteroids are located between mars and Jupiter. There are millions of them, and they are often grouped by their composition. Asteroids are mainly made of materials left over from the formation of the inner solar system words. Most of them orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, although there are groups of them that orbit closer.The best-known asteroids are 1 Ceres, These are rocky minor planets, and astronomers have observed them since the 1800s. Ceres is a different asteroid. That means it has a rocky core and a icy outer crust. It might have an internal ocean. Palla is the second asteroid to have been discovered and  Pallas have a very irregular shape.  Some asteroids have moons of their own! Also the vast majority of asteroids in the solar system are found out beyond mars.

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A comet is a very small solar system body made mostly of ices mixed with smaller amounts of dust and rock. Most comets are no larger than a few kilometres across. The main body of the comet is called the nucleus, and it can contain water, The mixture of ice crystals and dust, blows away from the comet nucleus in the solar wind, creating a pair of tails. The dust tail is what we normally see when we view comets from Earth.Comets normally orbit the Sun.These flared brightly in our skies and then faded into obscurity. In addition, More than a year later, the pieces of the comet crashed into Jupiter. The periodic Comet Halley is the most famous in history. It returns to the inner solar system once every 76 years.

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The Kuiper Belts an area of the outer solar system that is estimated to stretch across 20 astronomical units (AU) of space. It contains small solar system bodies made mostly of ices. It also is home to the known dwarf planets Pluto,Haumea  and Makemake. . This region of space is cold enough to support the existence of volatiles more easily than areas closer to the Sun.The Kuiper Belt extends from roughly the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU out to about 55 astronomical units from the Sun. The main body of this belt covers much of this region, ranging from nearly 40 AU to 48 AU. It is thick in most places and astronomers have described it as being more torus-shaped than a belt would be. Other regions of the Kuiper Belt include a disk of scattered objects that are part of a population of worlds called Trans-Neptunium Objects.

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There are 5 officially recognized dwarf planets in our solar system, they are Ceres, Pluto,, Make make and Eris. With the exception of Ceres, which is located in the asteroid, the other dwarf planets are found in the outer solar system. There are another 6 objects in our solar system that are almost certainly dwarf planets and there may as many as 10,000.The largest dwarf planet in the solar system could be either Eris or Pluto followed by Make make and Haumea with the smallest being Ceres. The order of the dwarf planets from closest to sun outwards is Ceres, Pluto, Haumea and Make make with Eris being the furthest from the Sun.

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There are 240 moons in total of the various planets and dwarf planets in the solar system. The planets Mercury and Venus do not have any moons and neither do the dwarf planets Ceres and Makemake.

Jupiter moons- 67

Saturn moons- 62

Uranus moon- 27

Neptune moons- 14

Pluto moons- 5

Eris moons- 1

Haumer moons- 2

The moon is 3,474 in diameters and was formed 4.6 billion years ago around some 30-50 million years ago after the formation of the solar system. Also the distance to the is 384, 400 km and the moon is made out of metallic iron.The moon is the natural satellite of the earth. Also all moons have layers. The biggest moon is Galilean Moons that orbits Jupiter.

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