Did you know that the sun is huge? It’s so big that 1.3 million Earths could fit inside of it! The sun is also really, really old. Scientists believe that it formed about 4.6 billion years ago. Here are ten fun facts about the sun: 1. The sun is a star. There …
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, and is Earth’s closest neighbor in terms of size and distance. Venus is similar to Earth in many ways, but also very different. For example, Venus has a much longer day than Earth – a “day” on Venus lasts for 243 Earth days! Here are ten …
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity. The Romans named it …
