Our Sun

Our Sun book cover — S P A E OUR SUN IAN GRAHAM Smart Apple Media

Our Sun — page 1 — OUR SUN The Sun is a star like the thousands of other stars in the sky It looks bigger and brighter than all the others because it is so much closer rants Neptune Jupiter Earth Saturn Mars Venus Mercury Sun SUN's GRAVITY Earth's gravity pulls you down to the ground The Sun's gravity is so strong that it holds the wholes solar system together Without the Sun the planets would all fly away The Sun holds eight planets in orbit around

Our Sun — page 2 — How FAR The Sun spins The Sun is 93 million miles 150 million km around once away from us A jet airliner would take about every 25 days 19 years to fly the same distance HOW BIG WARNING Never ever look at the Sun The light and heat coming from the Sun are so strong that they would damage your eyes maybe even causing blindness The Sun looks small o in the sky but it is a giant It is so big that more than a million Earths would fit inside

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