Transcript Space Travelling

Space Travelling
Around Universe
Made by Misha Buryak
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Glossary
What is space?
Solar system
Moon
Sun
Rocky and gas planets
Star
Constellations
Galaxy
Glossary
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asteroid-астероид
the solar system- солнечная система
spacecraft- космический корабль
meteorite- метеор
space- космос
surface- поверхность
fiery- огненный
galaxy- галактика
spin-вращаться
pattern- образец, модель
manage- управлять
 Space is the near emptiness
surrounding Earth. It stretches
farther than astronomers can see,
evens with their most powerful
telescopes. In space, there are
stars, moons, galaxies, and
planets and stars, there are tiny
bits of dust and gas. There may
also be other things waiting to be
discovered. Everything in space is
part of the universe.
Fact file
Scientists think that the universe was formed
about 10 to 20 billion years ago. These pictures
show you what may have happened
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The solar system is the name given to the
sun and all the objects in space that
travel around it. In the solar system, there
are nine planets and their moons, comets,
and chunks of rock called asteroids and
meteoroids. The planets lie huge distance
apart and take different lengths of time to
travel around the sun. The time it takes for
a planet to circle the sun once is called its
year. The planets also spin around like
tops. The time it takes for a planet to spin
around once its day.
 The sun is at the center of
the solar system. Its so
large that it is more than
100 times wider than
Earth.
 Mercury Is the fastest
planet to travel around the
sun. It takes 88 Earth
days to make on
complete circle.
 Venus is the slowest
spinning planet. It takes
243 times longer than
Earth to spin around
once.
 The moon is ball of rock that circles around
Earth about once every 27 days. The same
side of the, called the nearside, always faces
Earth. The other side, called the farside, is
hidden from Earth. The moon is the only
place in space that astronauts have visited.
Twelve astronauts have landed there to
explore its surface and bring back rocks.
They discovered that the moon was dry and
dusty and that nothing lived there.
 In the sunlight, the moon
is twice as hot as the
hottest desert on the
Earth, but in the dark, it is
almost twice as cold as
the coldest place on
Earth.
 In 1959, a Russian
spacecraft called Luna 3
sent the first pictures of
the farside of the moon
back to Earth.
 The moon is bigger than
the smallest planet, which
is Pluto.
 The sun is a huge fiery ball of
gas that glows in the sky. It is the
closest star to Earth. Like all
stars, the sun gives out energy as
heat and light. Much of this is
lost in space but some of it
reaches Earth. Without heart and
light, Earth would be dark and
cold and nothing could live here.
Sunspot-Dark
spots on the
sun that cooler
than the rest of
the sun
surface.
 Light from the sun
travels almost 93
million miles (150
million km) to reach
Earth. It would take a
car over 200 years to
travel this far, but it
takes light only eight
minutes.
 An ancient Chinese
legend explained an
eclipse as a dragon
eating the sun.
 The sun spins around
once every 27 days.
 A rocky planet is made
up of rock and metal. It
has a rocky surface with
a metal core. The four
planets nearest the sun,
which are Mercury,
Venus, Earth, and Mars,
are all rocky planets.
 A gas planet is made up
mostly of gases and
liquids. It has a rocky
core that is covered in a
thick layer of liquid or ice.
On the outside of a gas
planet, there are layers of
colored clouds. Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune are gas planets.
 A star is a huge fiery ball of gas that gives
out heat and light. The sun is a star and the
only one that looks to us like a huge ball in
the sky. All the other stars look like
pinpoints of light because they are so far
away. Stars are not all the same. They are
different colors and sizes. Each star also
has a lifetime. Once it is born, it will shine
steadily for a long time, until it dies.
 On a clear night, you can see about
3,000 stars in the sky without using a
telescope.
 The hottest star that astronomers
have found is nearly 40 times hotter
than the sun.
 In about five billion years, the sun will
swell up to a giant star. It may become
large enough to swallow up Earth
A constellation is a group of stars that makes a
pattern in the sky. Astronomers have counted 88
constellations and given each of them a name. The
constellations do not change their shape, but as the
night passes, they seem to move across the sky. This
happens because Earth is spinning around. The
constellations themselves are not really moving.
People see different constellations depending on
where they live in the world.
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Many constellations, or groups of stars, were named
thousands of years ago. Some, such as the Great Dog
or the Whale, were named after an animal. Others,
such as the Centaur, took people in ancient stories. In
the past, sailors travelling across the ocean used the
constellation to find their way. During these long
voyages, some new constellations were discovered.
They were given names, such as the Sails, after parts
of a ship.
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 Some constellations, such as Orion can
be see in the southern sky for half of the
year and the northern sky for the other
half.
 The Sea Snake is the largest
constellation in the sky.
 A galaxy is a huge family of stars,
dust and gas that is held together by
gravity. The biggest galaxies in the
universe using powerful telescopes,
but they think there are still many
more to be found. Some galaxies
shoot out jets of hot gas from their
centers, which travel far into space at
high speeds.