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    ; Our Environment and Universe Stars, Manees ane! eWeIMioon| Learning Plan + Know more about stars + Learn about the moon and its phases + Understand the solar system Warm-Up -@x 1. Fill in the blanks. . : gives us heat and light. . . twinkle in the night sky. goes around the earth. is made up of land, water and air. shines in the night. > The sky is beautiful and seems to be far away from us. When we look at it in the day time, we see the sun. At night, we can see the moon and millions of stars. Let us discover more about these amazing things in the sky. STARS Ona clear night, we can see many stars twinkling in the sky. Stars are big balls of fire. They have light and heat of their own. They are very far from us. That is why, they look like tiny sparkles. eaoge Infopits ( (the sun is also a star, It is made up of gases that keep burning, The temperature on the surface of i MisUehia steel ‘ anene setae fo can't touch a stee! hi sun is about 5500°C. It is the closegt star to ginolarhaldiigl hot the earth )That is why, it appears s0 big. water below 100°C. So, wu can just imagine Some stars appear to form different patterns oF eae Nace of designs in the sky. These groups of stars are called the sun would be. constellations. Constellations have been named after animals or mythical people. Ursa Majo, (also known as the Great Bear) and Orion (the great Hunter) are two famoy constellations in the sky. They can be seen easily on a ¢ le var night Ursa Major Orion A Some constellations Go to the school library and find out the names of two more constellations. PLANETS Our earth is like a huge ball that goes around the sun. There are other large bodies, known as planets, which go around the sun. There are eight such planets, including the earth. The sun, the eight planets A Solar system Pia cig.satum and their satellites along with Pe irasus some other Heavenly! Bodiés form 4,Mars 8, Neptun the solar system. 1. Mercury 5. Jupiter ind the planets visible in the sky 9A emma: bodies like the sun, the ee eight planetsin oursolar system ar heels olarsystem are Mercun | Tenus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus an Inf%pits | Neptune: Mercury is the closest planetto the e e is the ee eUy) . SNS the farthest planet. The sun is Lae atthe centre a Se the planets move around it system, even though in their own FIXC paths, called orbits, Mercury is the closest | (planets do not have any light of their own, They

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