Here are some of the interesting facts that Form 6 learnt:

• The sun is called also known as Sol and that is why we call it the Solar system

• There are up to 400 billion stars in our galaxy

• There are trillions of galaxies 

• There are more than 200 moons in our solar system

• The dark patches on the moons are called seas and the light patches are called the highlands

• To travel from the earth to the moon it takes two to three days, but from earth to Mars it takes six to eight months

• There are eight spacecrafts currently orbiting Mars

• Mars used to be a blue planet meaning it had water

Using Mr McCarthy’s telescope, the children were able to see Jupiter and four of its moons; Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.