Transcript Stars

Stars
Part 1
https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/galaxies/
https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/lifecycleofstars/
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Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurFmd8xDe0
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What are stars made of?
Stars are made of hot burning
gases.
What colors can stars be?
Why are the stars different
colors?
The color of the star tells you its
temperature.
If you put a piece of metal in a
fire, it would turn a dark red first,
then orange, next yellow, and
finally a bluish-white as it heated
up.
The 2nd closest star to Earth is
Proxima Centauri. It is over 4.2
light years away.
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What happens to the stars during
the daytime?
They’re still there. You just can’t
see them because the sun is so
bright.
Our stars revolve around the
center of the galaxy.
The North Star doesn’t move.It’s
always in the north.
The North Star is on the end of
the handle of the Little Dipper.
The 2 stars at the end of the Big
Dipper always point to it.
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Part 4
https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/constellations/
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A group of stars that seems to
form a picture is called a
constellation.
There are 88 recognized
constellations.
Scientists don’t think of them as
pictures. They just use them as
sections of a sky map.
One of the most famous
constellations is the Big Dipper.
The 12 signs of the zodiac are
also famous constellations.
The 12 Zodiac signs seem to
circle the Earth.
Aquarius
Aries
Cancer
Capricorn
Gemini
Leo
Libra
Pisces
Sagittarius
Scorpio
Taurus
Virgo
Orion is one of the easier
constellations to find. Look for
the 3 stars that make up his belt.
Draco the dragon
The constellation names we used
were named by the Greeks and
Romans thousands of years ago.
They sat around the campfire
telling stories about their heroes,
gods, and godesses using the
pictures in the sky.
Hercules
Asteroids
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Asteroids
Most asteroids are big chunks of
rock. Many of them have a large
amount of iron in them.
All of the asteroids glued
together would still be less than
½ the size of our moon.
Ceres is the largest asteroid.
600 miles
Asteroids orbit the sun.
Most asteroids are found in the
asteroid belt between the orbits of
Mars and Jupiter.
Comets
Comets
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https://www.brainpop.com/science/space/comets/quiz/
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A comet is like of a frozen
gassy, rocky dustball.
A comet has a head and a tail.
The tail is the dust left after the
other parts of the comet have
evaporated.
Comets orbit around the sun.
Its tail points away from the sun.
Comet’s orbits take them to the
Kuiper Belt outside the planet .
A shooting star is
not a star
not a comet
It’s a piece of dust or rock
burning up as it passes through
the atmosphere.
Halley’s comet is the most
famous. It returns every 76 years.
Next arrival - 2062