Reach for the stars
25 Nov 2022Form 6 has been glancing at galaxies with an evening of stargazing, followed a few days later by a visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
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
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There are up to 400 billion stars in our galaxy
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There are trillions of galaxies
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There are more than 200 moons in our solar system
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The dark patches on the moons are called seas and the light patches are called the highlands
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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
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There are eight spacecrafts currently orbiting Mars
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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.