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Hubble's deep field image

Hubble's deep field image

Monday, 3 June 2013

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth and second largest planet in our solar system. Its atmosphere is made up of methane and its rings of rock and ice. Saturn is well known for its rings of rocks and ice. The rocks scale up to 2 km to a speck of dust! It also has auroras. Saturn can have winds up to 300 mph. It has 60 moons.

Picture-ring nebula

This most be very expensive

Uranus

Ok, get the laughter out of you! Uranus is a gas giant with rings. It's axis is the opposite to Earths and it has 27 moons. Its atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane. It takes roughly 17 hours to have one day and takes 84 years to orbit the sun.

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

picture-Jupiter the bodyguard


You see the white oval? That's Jupiter smashing a meteorite

Jupiter

The 5th planet in the solar system and the first gas giant, it is also the biggest planet. The majority of its atmosphere is made up of methane. It has had a storm in it for 300 year, you may know this as the red spot!
It has very thin rings from moons that has been smashed apart. A surprising fact about Jupiter is that it took only 10,000 years to form, which is very fast in astronomical terms.
Jupiter is like a body guard for Earth, as it smashes meteorites, that would otherwise hit Earth. Without Jupiter, we would possibly be dead by now. Another fact is that Jupiter has 63 moons and its gravitational field stretches over to Saturn!
Well guys that's it, see you!

Monday, 27 May 2013

Picture- the pillars of life nebula

Birth, marriage,parenthood and death... Done!

The asteroid belt

There is not really much to say on this except its a belt of rock between mars and Jupiter, it is home to Ceres,  a dwarf planet. The asteroid belt was formed when planets crashed into each other when the solar system was young. Most asteroids that hit planets come from here!
I know it was a short article, but the asteroid belt has nothing much to it.
Bye!
Diagram of the inner solar system.
The white bit is the asteroid belt.