The document provides information about various celestial bodies in our solar system including planets, stars, galaxies, and other astronomical phenomena. It discusses the composition and characteristics of objects like Venus, Pluto, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, comets, and black holes. The document is written in a simple, straightforward style to describe these objects for educational purposes.

1. E x p lo r in g o u r
S o la r S y s t e m

2. C o n s t e lla t io n s b y A b b y C
Do you ever see stars that make up shapes in
the sky? They are called constellations. There
are billions of stars in the sky. We can only
see
about two thousand. we can see more with a
telescope or binoculars. There are clumps of
stars all over the universe. They are called
galaxies. We live in a galaxy called the milky
way. A star is a big hot burning ball of gas
made up of hydrogen and helium. Stars live for
about 10 billion years! A long time ago people
saw shapes made out of stars in the sky.
They named then constellations and made up a
story about each one. The north star is a
special star. It is the only star that does not
move. A long time ago sailors used the north
star to find there way. The easiest way to
find the north star is to find the star at the
bottom left corner of the cup on the big dipper
and keep on going up till you find the north
star. Constellations and stars are cool things
in the universe. I liked writing a report about
them.

3. Super Stars by Abby W
Do you know what stars are? Stars are big balls of
burning
gas and fire. They are found in galaxies. There is
an infinite
amount of stars in the sky. More than all the sand
from all the
beaches in the world. Stars live for ten billion
years. That is
their life.
Constellations are shapes made of stars. For
example long
ago people would imagine lines connected the stars to
make
pictures in the sky. Those people were the
Egyptians. Here are
some names of constellations. Orion. Leo ,Big
Dipper, Little
Dipper, Auriga and Delphinus. They also made up
stories about
each constellation.
Stars and constellations are special because they
light up the
sky. There could not be life on a star because you

4. Venus by Adam
Venus is a hot planet and it is the second
closest to the sun and almost the size of
Earth. It is called Earth’s twin. Venus has
no moons or rings it take 255 days to
orbit the sun. It is 7,521 miles and 12,101
kilometers across. It is made of iron.
There is a volcano on Venus. Yes
spacecraft have visited but it was
crushed by the atmosphere on Venus.
No there can’t be life on Venus because
of the poisonous atmosphere. The
surface is mostly flat. The atmosphere
could crush you. Venus was named after
an ancient Roman god of beauty. In
conclusion venus interesting because of
the poisonous atmosphere and the
atmosphere could crush you.

5. P lu t o b y A la n
Do you know what was the first dwarf
planet? Pluto was. Pluto is located in
the
Kuiper belt. Pluto takes about 248
earth
years to orbit around the sun. Pluto is a
dwarf planet. Pluto is the farthest
planet
from the sun than Neptune. It is also
very
small that’s why it is called a dwarf
planet.
Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar
system. Pluto is made out of ice and
rock.
Pluto’s surface looks like snow on earth.
Another Dwarf planet called Eris is
larger
than Pluto. Pluto’s main moon is

6. Sun by Aleah
What is the sun. it is a big ball of burning gas. The sun is in the
milky way galaxy. The sun is about five billion years old. It is on
one of the arms. It is a middle aged star. Sunspots are dark
spots on the sun. They look dark because they are cooler.
Solar flares are explosions on the sun that send out hot
particles. The sun is made of hydrogen and helium gasses. The
sun is going to burn out in 5,000,000 years. It will turn into a red
giant and then a white dwarf. The sun is the most important part of
our solar system.

7. Comets by Annie
Do you know what travels trough space and never lands on
planets? I do, comets. Comets are small ice bodies with long
streaming tails. Comets seem to come from nothing with no
warning. In 1986 Halley’s comet was seen for the first time
EVER! You’re more likely to see a meteor then a comet.
Comets are made of gas, ice and dust.. They travel around the sun
in an oval orbit.. Comets are warmed up as they approach the
sun. Halley’s comet appears once every 77 years. A British
astronomer discovered that a comet tipped Uranus on its
side. Comets have no life on them. Comets can die but it can
take 14,000 years for a comet to die. No spacecraft have
ever landed on a comet. I loved studying about comets.
Thanks to our solar system.

8. Jupiter by Ari
Did you know that Jupiter is made out of gases?
Jupiter travels around the sun every twelve Earth years.
Jupiter is the 5th Planet It is on the other side of the asteroid
belt. Jupiter has a rocky center but the rest of this planet is
made of hydrogen gas. Jupiter is the biggest planet. Jupiter
has more than 60 known moons. Jupiter also has rings made of
dust and ice. Jupiter’s moons and rings all orbit the planet in
the same direction.
I like Jupiter because it is big!

9. Uranus by Benny
U r a n u s is t h e o n ly p la n e t
tha t ma k e s
b la c k d ia m o n d s ! U r a n u s is
the s e ve nth •
p la n e t f r o m t h e s u n .
U r a n u s t r a v e ls a r o u n d
the s u n o nc e e ve ry 8 4
E a r th ye a r s .
U r a n u s s p in s o n it s s id e
be c a us e a n
a s t e r o id o r c o m e t h it it .
U r a n u s is f a t h e r
fro m the s u n the n S a tu rn .
U r a n u s is m a d e
o u t o f M e tha ne g a s a nd
t h e g a s m a k e s it
l o o k b l u e . I t i s 3 1, 6 9 0 m i l e s
a c ros s .
U r a n u s h a s 11 r i n g s . T h e
r in g s s p in f r o m
u p t o d o w n n o t le f t t o r ig h t .
Ura nus ha s 2 7

10. Do you know what is the second largest planet?
Super Saturn by Dalia
That’s right Saturn is! Saturn is the third plant
from our planet earth. Saturn takes 29 1/2 earth
years to orbit the sun 1 time because it is so far
away from the sun so it needs to make a bigger
orbit then our planet earth does. Do you think
that Saturn looks the same when you look at it on
the first day of May, and you look at it again on
the first day of June again? Well if you think yes
that is correct. Saturn is made of gasses. It is
called a gas planet. It is the sixth planet from the
sun. Saturn is 74,900 miles across it is the second
largest planet in our solar system. Saturn’s rocky
center is about the same size as planet earth.
Saturn has at least 56 moon orbiting it. Saturn’s
biggest moon is named Titan it is 3,200 miles
across. Saturn also has an other moon it is named
Enceladus. The surface of Enceladus is covered
with ice. Some chunks in Saturn’s rings are as big
as a house. The large dark stripes are empty
spaces between the rings. There are many storms
on Saturn. One of them is called the Dragon
Storm because of its shape. The temperature at
the center of Saturn is 26,500 degrees farenheit.
Saturn has winds that can travel one thousand
miles per hour! That is even faster than any wind
on Earth I think Saturn is amazing because I did
not know that it had so many rings – it has 1,000.

11. Black holes by Daniel
A black hole is the most bizarrre phenomenon that ever occurs in the universe.
Black holes disobey every law of physics. A black hole sucks in anything that
gets too close including light , matter , time and gravity. They are so heavy
that only zero gravity can move it. Imagine you took the earth and start
crushing it until it was the size of a golf ball, but it would weigh as much as
earth . Black holes are usually about 24 miles across so use the math
formula of pi to imagine how much it would weigh. Black holes constantly
form and travel across the universe. Do not worry scientists have done math
and say that there are no black holes currently able to suck up earth. The
average black holes is about 24 miles across but some are monsters. The
closest black hole is located at the heart of our galaxy. It is pulling stars out
of their orbit and bringing them closer to it. That is why the center of our
galaxy is so bright it’s surface is the edge of our universe. Black holes don’t
have any rings or moons but they can have suns. There are an estimated
200,000 ,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 formed a minute in our universe.
The surface is called the event horizon (edge of the universe). Black holes
have 90,000 times gravity on earth . Too close to a black hole is about
93,000,000 miles away. If you get within about that the hole would
slowly suck toward it .When you get close to it very strange things
would start to happen to you. Your legs would be getting pulled on
much more than your head you would be stretched to the limit . When
your at the event horizon you would appear to be still but in reality you
would be inside the black hole. Very little is known about these
phenemona

12. Jupiter by Danielle
Have you ever wondered about the red spot on Jupiter?
Jupiter is the fifth planet in our solar system. It is the first
planet beyond the asteroid belt. Takes 12 earth years to orbit
the sun. Jupiter is 480 million miles from the sun. It orbits the
sun every 11.9 years. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar
system. It has a rocky center but the rest of the planet is made
of hydrogen gas. Deep inside Jupiter the hydrogen changes
into solid rock and metal. Jupiter has more than 60 moons.
Earth has only one. Jupiter also has rings made of dust. They
both orbit Jupiter. Scientists have used space probes to study
Jupiter’s biggest moons. Io is covered with volcanoes. It has more
volcanoes than any other planet or moon in our sola system. The
surface of Io is always changing. Europa is covered with a thick
layer of ice. Some scientists think there was water there.

13. Marvelous Milky Way
by Gavri
Did you know our galaxy has
awesome things to know ? If you
want to know then listen up. Do you
know the name of our
galaxy?
Yes, you sure do .It is the milky way of
course . It is called that
because it looks like a big blob of
milk. Ancient Greeks thought
so. The Milky Way is made up of over
1,000,000,000 stars. This
galaxy is called a spiral galaxy. We
are on one of the spiral
arms. The Milky Way is in a cluster of
36 galaxies. It orbits
around the center of the universe.

14. Blue Uranus by Jocy
Who got hit by a rock? That’s
right Uranus.
Uranus is the 7 th planet from
the sun. Uranus is bigger
than
Earth. It is made of ice and
rocks. it looks like a far
away star.
It looks blue from the methane
gas. Uranus has 27 moons and
at least 11 rings. Uranus is
vary windy. the clouds move
about
400miles per Hour. Uranus spins
on its side. Long ago a object
hit Uranus and it went on its
side. It spins sideways.
Uranus
was not discovered until 1781
because there wasn’t a
powerful
telescope.
Uranus is special because it
spins on its side!

15. Neptune by Jonathan
H a ve yo u e ve r w onde re d
a b o u t the 8 th
p la n e t f r o m
the s u n?
N e p tu ne is the 8 th p la n e t
fro m the s u n.
N e p tu ne is 3 0 ,7 7 5 m ile s
away fro m E a rth a nd
4 9 ,5 2 8 k m a w a y
fro m E a rth. It ta k e s 16 5
E a r t h y e a r s t o o r b it t h e
s u n fo r
N e p t u n e . N e p t u n e is m a d e
out of gasses . The
s u rfa c e o f N e p tu ne
is b lu e be c a us e it ha s
m e t h a n e g a s . T h e r e is a
d a rk s p o t o n the
d o w n s id e o f N e p t u n e it is a
hu g e s to rm. N e p tu ne ha s
13
m o o n s . T h e b ig g e s t m o o n is
n a m e d T r it o n it is m o s t ly
ma de out
o f ic e .

16. Pluto by Josh
Did you know that Pluto is - 400 degrees
temperature?
Pluto is in the Kuiper Belt. It is the 9th planet
from the sun. Pluto travels around the
sun once every 248 Earth years. It is 1450 miles
across. It is a dwarf planet because it has an
oval orbit and it is in the Kuiper Belt. Pluto is
made out of frozen water. Pluto’s moon is
almost the size of Pluto. Pluto has 1 moon and
the name is Charon. Pluto was discovered in
1890 and they called it Planet X. In 1930 they
named it Pluto. The New Horizons space probe
was launched in 2006. It should reach Pluto in
2015.

17. Ve nus b y L o g a n
The a ir o n V e n u s is v e r y t h ic k
a n d f ille d w it h c a r b o n d io x id e
a nd S u lf u r ic a c id . V e n u s t r a v e ls
a ro u nd the s u n o nc e e ve ry
3 E a r t h d a y s . T h is jo u r n e y is
V e n u s ’ s o r b it . V e n u s is
t h e 2 n d c lo s e s t p la n e t t o E a r t h
a n d th e 2 n d fro m th e s u n.
V e n u s is the e a s ie s t t o s e e
f r o m e a r t h b e c a u s e it is s o
b r ig h t . Yo u c a n o f t e n s e e V e n u s
w h e n t h e s k y is s t ill q u it e
lig h t . T e le s c o p e s c a n n o t s e e
t h r o u g h V e n u s ’ t h ic k c lo u d s .
V e n u s is a lm o s t t h e s a m e s iz e a s
E a r t h . It is s o m e t im e s c a lle d
E a r t h ’ s t w in . V e n u s s p in s in t h e
o p p o s it e d ir e c t io n o f E a r t h .
T h e h ig h t e m p e r a t u r s o n V e n u s is
8 9 6 d e g r e e s . T h e h ig h e s t
m o u n t a in on Ve nu s is c a lle d
M a x w e ll M o n t e s . It is a b o u t 7

18. Saturn by Mickey
Do you know the second-biggest planet in our solar
system? Saturn is! Read on to find out more.
Saturn travels around the sun once every 29 ½ Earth
years. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun. Saturn is
between Jupiter and Uranus. Saturn is a gas planet of
hydrogen gas. It is also the lightest in weight. The
center is plain rock, then liquid gas then hydrogen gas.
Saturn has about 23 moons. It’s biggest moon is Titan.
Saturn has many rings made of gas, dust and ice.
Saturn has a lot of storms all over the planet. The
biggest storm is called the Dragon Storm.
I liked studying Saturn.

19. Marvelous Moon by Mira
Hi I am Mira Brown. welcome to the Moon center. Are you
ready
to take a tour of the Moon? Lets go!
The Moon does not exactly orbit the sun. It orbits our
Earth. Which in
this case, orbits the sun. Fun fact about the moon: it takes
about 29 ½
Earth days for the moon to orbit the Earth. The moon was
formed about
4.5 billion years ago. Our moon is more than ¼ of the
Earth’s
size, but it could hardly be more different. It has no
atmosphere, no life and no water. Over 3 billion years ago,
thousands of meteorites bombarded it, which made craters.
Only 12 people have been on the moon, during the time 1969
-
1972. Our moon does not have volcanoes or storms. One of
the
12 people on the moon was Neil Armstrong. He went to the
moon during 1969.
I love the moon. I hope you do too!

20. Milky Way by Naomi
Do you know which galaxy is home to Earth? It is the
Milky Way.
Astronomers believe that the Milky Way was formed
out of a
large, round cloud of cold gas that collapsed on itself
16 billion
years ago! A huge group of stars is called a galaxy.
Our galaxy
is the Milky Way. Our sun is in the milky way
galaxy. If you
could see the Milky Way from space it would look like
a huge
Spinning pinwheel. The Milky Way galaxy has about
two
hundred Billion stars and countless other objects
besides. The
sun is On one of the arms of the Milky Way. It’s a
spiral galaxy.
Everything in the Milky way orbits the center of the
galaxy.
Astronomers think there might be an enormous black
hole at

21. Earth by Noya
Do you know why half of the earth is day time
and half of the earth night time? Because the
Sun is shining on one side! Earth is third
from the sun and takes one year to orbit
around the sun. It also spins. It takes one day
to spin a whole circle. The Earth is made out
of rock. Earth has life on it because we have
water. It takes 7,926 miles to walk across the
Earth. We have one moon and it is the only
place man has visited. The surface is mostly
mountains. The highest one is Mt. Everest.
Billions of years ago Earth used to be really
hot. It got colder and colder. It turned white,
then it turned green, blue and white. Later a
meteorite hit it and clouds covered it.
There is life on Earth because there is water
on Earth.

22. Meteoroids by Omer
What is the only object that flies and enters a
planet? That’s right! Meteoroids.
A meteoroid is a piece of metal and rock that
came from the asteroid belt. Meteoroids were
first asteroids but when two Asteroids bonk
together they become meteoroids. After a
meteoroid bonks it doesn’t orbit the sun! It
flies through space to the planet earth. You can
find a meteoroid in space. When a meteoroid
crashes you can find the crash in a dessert
a grassy place or where dinosaurs lived. When
the meteoroid hit Earth the dinosaurs died.
Large meteoroids are believed to come from the
asteroid belt. Most small meteoroids are pieces
that have broken off from comets. But they’re
mostly large meteoroids. Meteoroids are made of
metal rock. The meteoroids surface looks like
big craters that comets crashed into.
Meteoroids have craters but don’t have
volcanoes or storms. There couldn’t be life on a
meteoroid because it’s too small and there is no
water or air.
Maybe one day we will see a meteoroid!

23. Mars by Peyton
you know if anyone walked on Mars? no, but space
probes
have been there!! wouldn’t it be awesoMe to walk
on Mars!
it takes 687 earth days to orbit the sun. Mars is
the closest to
us.(earth). people could live on Mars in the future
but it could
take about 10,000 to 100,000 years! Mars has two
Moons in
orbit around it. Mars gets it’s reddish color froM
rust in the
soil. Mars is alMost half the size of earth. Mars
is a rock planet.
Mars has a lot of crater s, Mountains, and
canyons. Mars is the
fourth closest to our star.(sun). Mars looks like
a bright red
star froM earth. Mars has ice at its north and
south poles.
Mars is very cool to look at. Mars has a thin
atMosphere so
sunlight can get in but at night it is very cold.
Mars has no rings
but has 2 Moons. Mars’ Moons are phobos which
Means fear
and deiMos which Means panic. Mars has Mountains
bigger
than Mt. everest. scientists believe that
Martians used to live
on Mars because they fo und ice at its poles.

24. M e t e o r o id s b y
S yd n e y
D o yo u e v e r w o n d e r w h a t a
s h o o t in g s t a r is ? It is a
m e t e o r o id . M e t e o r o id s a r e
m a d e fro m p a rts o f c o m e ts
a n d a s t e r o id s . P e o p le say
t h a t m e t e o r o id s a re fr o m
the a s t e r o id b e lt .
M e t e o r o id s d o n ’ t o r b it t h e
s u n . B e c a u s e t h e n it w o u ld
b e a n a s t e r o id . T h e y le a v e
t h e a s t e r o id b e lt b e c a u s e
a s t e r o id s h it o t h e r one s .
T h e d in o s a u r s d ie d b e c a u s e
a m e t e o r it e h it E a r t h a n d
d u s t w e n t e v e r yw h e r e a n d
the d in o s a u r s c o u ld not
b r e a t h . M e t e o r o id s a r e b ig
or s m a ll. M e t e o r o id s a re
m a d e o f r o c k . Th e s u r fa c e
lo o k s lik e a r o c k . A n d it h a s
s m a ll h o le s . M e t e o r o id s a r e
a ls o m a d e o u t o f p ie c e s o f

25. Neptune by Tahel
Do you know Neptune's surface is
blue?
The gases on Neptune's surface
make Neptune’s surface
turn the color blue. Neptune is the
4th biggest planet. It can fit
about 60 Earths in it. Neptune is
30,775 miles across. Winds
fly around Neptune and they are
up to 1,200 miles per hour.
The center of Neptune is made of
rock and ice. Neptune has
13 moons. Neptune’s biggest
moon is called Triton. It is
about
¾ the size of earth’s moons.
Neptune is cold!