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Take a quick tour of the Solar System, the star system where we live. It's our neighborhood of the Milky Way. Find out what lies between the Sun and the edge of the Oort Cloud. This isn't a new article, but I've just updated it. Solar System - Tour for Kids
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Mercury is close enough to the Sun for lead to melt during the day. Yet there is ice at the poles. Before we had space probes, Mercury was a mystery hidden in the Sun's glare, but all that's changed. Mercury - 10 Facts for Kids
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Would you like to visit another planet? How about Mars or Venus? Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin wants to see astronauts on Mars, but could Venus be a better choice? Visiting Venus - Facts for Kids
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It's the planet most likely to be mistaken for a UFO. It spins backwards on its axis. A year is two days long. It's Venus! Some call it Earth's twin, but it isn't much like home. Venus - Facts for Kids
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It is bright. Our planet is definitely unique and as far as we know, one of a kind.
On the news last night (talking about UFOs) they had a clip of a unidentified flying phenomena. It was taken by a military pilot.
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We can see five planets with our unaided eyes. But people often ask how to find them and how to recognize them. Here is a beginner's guide to seeing Mercury and Venus. Absolute Beginners - Seeing Mercury and Venus
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may be for kids but every interesting..... I have a telescope here and I told my daughter to take it home with her so that the kids could go out at night and check out the sky. I share some of your posts with her hoping she will get the boys (husband and 2 sons) interested.
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The Moon has no air, no sound, no weather and no liquid water. It even has places that are colder than Pluto. But since gravity is weaker there, you could throw a ball a long way, and the footprint you left might last a hundred thousand years or more. The Moon - Facts for Kids
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We take the Moon for granted, because it's so close to us and easy to see. But it's a beautiful and interesting object as it goes through its monthly changes. Some of its main features are visible without optical aids, but with binoculars, you can see and learn to recognize many more. Absolute Beginners - Observing the Moon
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Earth's moon is “the Moon” because it was the only one humans had ever seen until 1610. That's when Galileo discovered moons orbiting Jupiter. By 1876 astronomers had found moons around all of the outer planets. So why did it take until 1877 for someone to find the moons of our neighbor Mars? Moons of Mars - Facts for Kids
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