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Introduces the Sun, our star, its relationship to other strs, its solar system, and the effects it has on Earth.
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Lerner Publications Company A Division of Lerner Publishing Group 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis MN 55401
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2000 by Graham Beehag Books
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Kerrod, Robin The Sun / Robin Kerrod. p. cm. (Planet library) Includes index. Summary: Introduces the Sun, our star, its relationship to other stars, its solar system, and the effects it has on Earth. ISBN 0-8225-3901-2 (lib.. bdg.) 1. SunJuvenile literature. 2. astronomy Juvenile literature. [1. Sun.] I. Title. II Series: Kerrod, Robin. Planet library. QB521.5.K47 2000 98-54438 523.7dc21
Printed in Singapore by Tat Wei Printing Packaging Pte Ltd Bound in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6OS05 04 03 02 01 00
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Contents
Introducing the Sun
5
Our Star, the Sun
6
Surface and Atmosphere
10
The Sun in the Sky
14
In the Shadows
18
The Life-Giving Sun
20
Coloring the World
22
The Sun and the Universe
24
When the Sun Dies
26
Exploring the Sun
28
Glossary
31
Index
32
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WARNING!
Never look directly at the Sun. In particular, never look at the Sun through binoculars or a telescope. If you do, you will damage your eyes and may go blind.
A streamer of glowing gas thousands of miles long shoots high above the Sun's surface. In time, the gas will cool and fall back into the Sun.
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Introducing the Sun
To us on Earth, the Sun is by far the most important body in the heavens. It sends us light to see by and heat to keep us warm. Without the Sun's light and heat, plants could not grow. Then there would be no food for other living things. Earth would be a dark, cold, and dead world.
The Sun and Earth travel together through space. Earth is one of many bodies that circle around the Sun. Together, these bodies form the Sun's family, the solar system. The word solar comes from the Latin word for the Sun, Sol.
The Sun is the only body in the solar system that gives off its own light. Planets and moons only reflect light from the Sun. The Sun is a star. It looks bigger and brighter than the other stars in the night sky because it is much closer.
Like the other stars, the Sun is a huge ball of extremely hot glowing gas. Its glaring surface is stormy and always changing. Great fiery fountains suddenly spring up. Dark spots come and go. Streams of particles flow out into space like a wind, causing spectacular effects when they reach Earth.
Astronomers think that the Sun is 4.6 billion years old. They believe it will probably keep on shining as it does for another 5 billion years. Then it will start to die. In time it will fade and shrink to a dark ball of cinders not much bigger than Earth.
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Our Star, the Sun
The Sun is quite unlike any other body in the solar system because it is a star. It makes its own energy and pours this energy into space as light and heat. But it is a very ordinary kind of star.
Symbol for the Sun
Like all stars, the Sun is a great ball of very hot gases. The main gas is called hydrogen. We know that the Sun is very hot because we can feel its heat a long way away, on Earth. Earth lies about 93 million miles (nearly 150 million km) away from the Sun.
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