Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Moon
The moon (latin:luna) is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the solar system.The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system (the barycentre) is located about 1,700 km—a quarter the Earth's radius—beneath the surface of the Earth. The moon takes a complete orbit around the Earth in 27.3 days.
Stars
Stars are luminous balls of plasma held together by gravity.The closest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth.Other stars are visible in the night sky, when they are not outshone by the Sun. For most of its life, a star shines due to thermonuclear fusion in it's core realsing energy that traverses the star's interior and then radiates into outerspace.
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