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What is in space?
People want to know.
Men and women make machines that take the
pictures of things in space
Milky way
This is a picture of a
galaxy. There are many,
many of them in space.
This is a special galaxy.
It is called the Milky
Way.
Many, many stars are in
the Milky Way.
Our sun is one of them .
Did you know?
The Milky Way has
about 400 billion stars.
Our sun is one of them.
Sun
The sun is one star in the
Milky Way.
It is a ball of burning
gas.
It gives us heat and
energy on Earth.
Did you know?
The sun is very large.
You could fit more than
one million Earths inside
it!
Solar
system
Eight planets go
around the sun.
They are Mercury,
Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus and
Neptune.
Did you know?
Asteroids go around
the sun too.
Asteroids are lumps
of rock.
Pluto
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
To the
Moon!
The first people to walk
on the moon were Neil
Armstrong and Edwin
“Buzz” Aldrin.
Michael Collins stayed
in the Command
Module.
Did you know?
The little white cone
holds the crew. It is the
only part that will come
back to Earth. It is called
the Command Module.
On the
Moon
Armstrong and
Aldrin put an
American flag on
the moon.
Did you know?
There is no air on
the moon.
Astronauts carry
tanks on their
backs.
Space
stations
A space station is up
in space.
Scientists do
experiments there.
Did you know?
The space station
goes around the
Earth almost 16
times a day.
Mars Rover
People have many
questions about Mars.
What does it look like?
Is there life on Mars?
People sent a robot to
Mars.
The robot takes pictures
and sends them back to
Earth.
Did you know?
Mars is rocky and cold.
There may be water on
Mars.
Into Deep
Space
Deep Space 1 went
into space in 1998.
It sent back pictures
of a comet and an
asteroid.
Scientists stopped
using Deep Space 1
in December
2001.But it is still out
in space.
It will not come back
to Earth.
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What is the milky way?
How many Earths would fit inside the sun?
How many planets go around the sun?
How long does it take to orbit the sun?
Which four planets are closest to the sun?
What is an asteroid?
Why are Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune so cold?
Why do astronauts need to carry air to breathe on the
moon?
What is the sun?
What is Mars like?
What did Deep Space 1 do?