Astronomy For The Young.
Written by Colin
Monday, 16 March 2009 09:48
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| Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, | |
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which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star Wars only serve to increase this attraction.
by Colin Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star |
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yline">by Colin Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star Wars only serve to increase this attraction. Our only natural satellite is called the moon. Its path around the Earth takes just over twenty seven days to complete. Man's knowledge being what it is and because the moon is so close, it is the only space object that mankind has ever set foot on, except for the Earth of course. The effects of gravity between the moon and Earth causes the tides. The moon is one of the first objects that sparks a child's interest in astronomy because it can be clearly seen with the human eye. Consider Sol, our own star, the sun. The distance between our home and the sun is very large, although it varies between 91 and 94 million miles. The reason for the variance is the Earth's elliptical orbit. If there were no sun, we wouldn't be alive. The sun provides both light and heat to the planet. A little known fact is that the sun contains about 98% of the m*** in the solar system. What a hog. We live in the galaxy called the Milky Way. Like all other galaxies it's a collection of gas, dust, stars and planets. Most of the area in a galaxy is filled with nothing, just empty space. That means that most of its volume, 3,000 light years high by 100,000 light years wide, the size of our galaxy, is empty. We're somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 light years from the central core of our galaxy. The nothingness is broken up by over 100 billion stars. In fact the galaxy was na |
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yline">by Colin Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star Wars only serve to increase this attraction. Our only natural satellite is called the moon. Its path around the Earth takes just over twenty seven days to complete. Man's knowledge being what it is and because the moon is so close, it is the only space object that mankin |
| Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star Wars only serve to increase this attraction.
by Colin Astronomy can be a life long pursuit and as with many things, even very serious things, people often become interested at an early age. This exciting science can provide hours of study, which is why astronomy is popular with children and their parents. For children, many parts of astronomy are magical and thus a huge draw. Movies like Star Wars only serve to increase this attraction. Our only natural satellite is called the moon. Its path around the Earth takes just over twenty seven days to complete. Man's knowledge being what it is and because the moon is so close, it is the only space object that mankind has ever set foot on, except for the Earth of course. The effects of gravity between the moon and Earth causes the tides. The moon is one of the first objects that sparks a child's interest in astronomy because it can be clearly seen with the human eye. Consider Sol, our own star, the sun. The distance between our home and the sun is very large, although it varies between 91 and 94 million miles. The reason for the variance is the Earth's elliptical orbit. If there were no sun, we wouldn't be alive. The sun provides both light and heat to the planet. A little known fact is that the sun contains about 98% of the m*** in the solar system. What a hog. We live in the galaxy called the Milky Way. Like all other galaxies it's a collection of gas, dust, stars and planets. Most of the area in a galaxy is filled with nothing, just empty space. That means that most of its volume, 3,000 light years high by 100,000 light years wide, the size of our galaxy, is empty. We're somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 light years from the central core of our galaxy. The nothingness is broken up by over 100 billion stars. In fact the galaxy was named for the thick group of stars in the main portion of it. It looks like a pool of liquid, thus the name Milky Way. There are four types of galaxies: elliptical, lenticular, irregular and, like the Milky Way, spiral. There is a lot of information about astronomy for kids on the Internet and kids could easily spend hours wrapped in detailed 3D representations of the universe around us. About the Author: Do you like to read about astronomy, then why not pop along to our website at: http://astronomy.the-real-way.com Grab a totally unique version of this article from the Uber Article Directory
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