forfThe children in Year 1 had a brilliant time in a planetarium today!
We learnt lots of new facts:
- Earth and the moon are made from rock and metal.
- The moon is made from the earth.
- In the middle of the moon is metal.
- The sun is a star.
- Jupiter and Saturn have a moon.
- Pluto is a dwarf planet.
- A red super giant is the largest star that has been found.
- Solar means star.
- Red dwarf stars are in our solar system.
- Black holes are when stars die. Black holes make radiation.
- Some planets are made from a gas called hydrogen.
- Earth is one hundred million miles from the sun.
- Jupiter is cold on the surface because it is the furthest from the sun.
- The centre of Jupiter 24 thousand degrees so is very hot!
- 1969 was the year three astronauts landed on the moon.
- The journey to the moon took three and a half days. Michael Collins controlled the spaceship (Apollo 11) to get the astronauts to the moon.
- They were on the moon for 21 hours.
- Jupiter rains diamonds.
- Gravity pulls us to the core of earth.
- Scientists believe that Jupiter was the first planet formed in the solar system.
We came up with some great questions too:
- Why does Jupiter have lines on it?
- What is a black hole?
- Are there aliens in space?
- Why does Uranus have a ring?