The Cosmic Landscape

Vocab words

• A Star: a massive, gaseous body held together by gravity and generally emitting visible light. Normal stars generate energy by nuclear reactions in their interiors.

• A solar system: the Sun, planets, their moons, and other bodies that orbit the Sun.

Our star system

The sun

• A star that is made up of Hydrogen and helium

• the mass of the sun is roughly 300,000 times more massive than the earth

• The energy that radiates from the sun is able to provide light and warmth

Mercury

• The planet closest our sun

• made of rocks and metals

• smaller than the Earth

• has no moons

Venus

• No moons

• sister planet to the earth

Earth

• 1 moon!

Mars

• red planet

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Jupiter

• largest planet

Saturn

• the ring planet

Uranus

• Made of hydrogen, helium and hydrogen

Neptune

• pretty blue planet