The stars that twinkle in the sky at night are tremendously far away. Even the closest one, called Proxima Centauri suh muh sen eye), is some twenty-five million million miles (forty million...
Measuring time by the stars
People of long ago lived out of doors most of the time, so they were used to seeing the stars at night. And they knew that the stars moved across the sky during the year. Because the stars always...
What about prizes?
Winning prizes is fun, but guests who don't win a prize may be very disappointed. Here are some ways to let everyone win a prize or a "thank- you-for-coming" favor. Winning Stars Give the guests...
The Stars and Stripes
Flag Day June 14 Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, A flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! from The Flag Goes By by Henry...
Studying the stars
What is the shape of the universe? Why do stars sometimes explode? Is there life on other planets? Scientists called astronomers and astrophysicists try to answer these and other questions. Most...
Other galaxies
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has more than a hundred billion stars. But it is not the only such "cloud" of stars in space. There are at least a billion other galaxies, and probably more, and each of...
The Milky Way
> Milky Way Galaxy > > Our sun is part of a gigantic cloud of stars called the Milky Way > Galaxy. On a clear summer night you can sometimes see a bright haze in part of the sky. This haze is...
Finding constellations
Do you live in the Northern Hemisphere---say, in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, or Japan? Then, during most of the year you will be able to see the constellations shown on the star chart...
Star pictures
On a clear night, you may see thousands of twinkling stars. They seem to be scattered helter-skelter all over the sky. But if you look carefully, you will see that groups of stars seem to form...
Why do stars twinkle?
The sun and its family of planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets are like tiny specks of dust floating in a gigantic ocean. The endless ocean of space also contains countless billions of other...
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