What’s Amazing about Space Exploring Exploring Exploring Exoplanets Deborah Kops Lerner Publications Minneapolis
Chapter 1 StArS And PlAnEtS The sky is filled with stars On a clear night you may be able to see lots of them Planets travel around some of those stars But you cannot see the planets Unlike stars planets do not give off their own light This night sky is filled with planets and stars You can see the stars but not the planets Do you know why 4
A planet is a round object in space that travels around a star Earth is a planet The star that Earth travels around is the Sun Seven other planets travel around the Sun too This is what Earth looks like from space Clouds swirl around Africa and Antarctica in this image 5
