Earth, its sun, the moon, and the eight planets are
just a small part of the Milky Way, and our sun is just one star in the Milky
Way.
The Milky Way is just one of approximately 100 billion
galaxies as we all know from our reading.
There are approximately 70 sextillion stars in the
entire universe. In figures that’s 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. If you want
to remember this number, it’s a seven followed by 22 zeros.
The yellow dwarf, the medium sized star, our sun is younger
and smaller than most of the sextillion stars. The surface of the sun is well
over 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit and its core is much hotter.
There are many fascinating space facts in this book,
and naming all of them would be to re-write the entire book word for word, and
from what I’ve read in the Arcturus Publishing Limited 2008 copy right, I am
already in violation of their criminal codes act from what I’ve written and shown
thus far, but I’m willing to take that chance in the blogosphere.
There are more then 80 constellations in the universe,
and The Great Bear is my favorite one. Constellations are imaginary lines drawn
between the stars and the sky.
A supernova is a vast explosion in which an entire
star is destroyed and is a billion times brighter than the sun. The last
supernova in our solar system happened in 1604.
This book, “Questions & Answers About Space,” is
only 30 pages and a great bargain I acquired from the Dollar Store. The book
was first published in 2008 by Arcturus Publishing Limited in London.
The book has details on all Earth’s planets, the sun
and our moon while also talking about the first humans and animals to travel in
space. Details about comets, asteroids and communication satellites are also covered
in this book. Four and a half stars is my rating for 2008s book, “Questions &
Answers About Space.”
