Short Story! (:

Hi my name is Shailene and I love observing our planet! First, I’m gonna start out with the moon. It has different phases and those are, in order, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous,  last quarter, waning crescent, and back to new moon. The moon goes through these phases about every 29.5 days. Did you know that during a new moon, we can not see any part of the moon?! It’s because the lit side is facing away from us. I learned that the moon does not actually produce its own light, it shines because its surface reflects light from the sun. Also that half the moon is always lit and the other half is always unlit. Now, tides! The changing positions of the moon relative to Earth and the sun also cause tides on Earth. A tide is the regular fall and rise of the surface of Earth’s oceans. High tide is when the water is at its highest point, low tide is lowest point! Ah, my favorite! Our galaxy!:)  There are a bunch of different things in our galaxy; stars, other planets, and stuff like that. Did you know that a star is not shaped like the star that we draw? A star is actually a sphere of hot, glowing gases( mostly hydrogen) that gives off its own light and is held together by gravity, and our sun is the biggest star out there. There is this weird thing called solar flares where there are sudden explosions on the sun’s surface. They can appear and disappear over minutes, days, weeks, or months! The temperatures of stars are weird, you would think the redder it is, the hotter right? Well, that’s wrong. The bluer the star, the hotter! Stars actually have life times! A nebula is the birth of a star and a super nova is the death of one. Well… I’ve had fun telling you about our planet but it’s time for me to go to bed, goodnight!(:

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