BY NOAH FRYE

OUR SOLAR SYSTEM  Our solar system has eight different planets with a dwarf planet named Pluto.  We are the third planet in the solar system.

SUN  The sun is really a star.  It is made of fire and gas.

Mercury  Mercury is one of the hottest planets in the solar system.  Mercury is about the size of Earth.

Venus  Venus is the second planet to the sun.  Venus is the warmest.

OUR EARTH  This is our planet, and we call it Earth.  The Earth is made mostly of water.

THE ASTEROID BELT  The asteroid belt divides the inner planets and outer planets.  They call it an asteroid belt because it has asteroids in the shape of a belt.

JUPITER  Jupiter is the biggest planet in the galaxy.  Jupiter has about 63 moons.

SATURN  Saturn is the planet with rings.  No one has been on Saturn.

URANUS  Uranus spins on its side unlike most planets.  It has just about 27 moons.

NEPTUNE  Neptune is made up of hydrogen and helium.  It has no more than 13 moons.

DWARF PLANETS  There are 5 different dwarf planets.  Nobody knows how may moons there are.

STARS  Stars are millions of pieces of gas.  They make pictures in your mind called constellations if you look closely.

CONSTELLATIONS  Constellations are pictures that you see in the stars.  This constellation is Orion and comes from a story in Greek times.

GALAXY  We live in a galaxy our galaxy is called the milky way.  Galaxies have stars and planets.

THE MILKY WAY  The Milky Way is the galaxy that we live in.  It looks beautiful from space I bet.

UNIVERSE The universe includes everything in space.  The planet Earth is in the universe too.

comet  A comet is a big rock that would mostly come in 50 years.  They are big rocks that almost hit earth.

telescope  A telescope can see stuff in outer space like the moon  There are very big telescope to see different planets.

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