Our Sun and the Planets

A multimedia Tour

How Do We See the Stars and Planets?

Sometimes we use telescopes on the ground…

and sometimes we look from space.

Where did the Sun and the Planets Come From?

The Sun is a hot ball of gas!

How Big is the Solar System?

• If the Sun were a basketball• Mercury would be the size of a period (.)

and would be 30 feet away!• Earth would be the size of a pin head 90

feet away• Pluto would be a grain of sand 0.7 miles

away• The next closest star would be in Alaska!!!

Mercury is very close to the Sun

Venus is covered with clouds, and it has lots of volcanoes

It is very hot on the surface

Earth: “There’s no place like home.”

Our Moon is Big!

and People Have Walked on It!

Mars: “Here we come!”

Mars: “Here we come!”

Mars: “Here we come!”

Mars: “Here we come!”

Mars: “Here we come!”

Which Planet is the Biggest?

Jupiter

Jupiter Has Many Strange Moons

And the Strangest is Io

It is covered with Volcanoes

Then Comes Saturn, its Rings, and Moons

Followed by Uranus

And Neptune

And Finally Pluto(Isn’t that a dog’s name?!?)

Pluto and its moon are smaller than the United States of America

The Solar System also has a lot of space junk in it, like

asteroids and comets

The Solar System is a rocking place!