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In this issue we are very lucky to have a piece of creative
writing sent in to us by Miranda Box, aged 5, inspired by our
Creative Writing Challenge set last issue. We provided three
images from which readers could create their own story!
“
My name is Miranda and I’m 5½. I love ballet, drawing,
reading stories and science. I’ve been reading on
my own since preschool. Sometimes I go to a class in school
for gifted children and they are older than me. I enjoy the
different activities like dice towers.
Two things that make me laugh are tickles and the word
“piffle”. I don’t like being on my own for long. My favourite
author is Roald Dahl and I’ve just finished Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. I loved Potential Plus UK’s BIG Family
Weekend. If there was a Top Trumps for it, the event with the
highest fun score would be the Planetarium.”
The images that inspired
Miranda!
Did you know?
QQ If you were to place Saturn in
water, it would float.
NN If you placed a pinhead sized
piece of the Sun on the Earth, you
would die from standing within 145
km (90 miles) from it.
CC Space is not a complete vacuum.
There are about 3 atoms per cubic
metre of space.
DD Only 5% of the universe is made
up of normal matter, 25% is dark
mater and 70% is dark energy.
QQ Neutron stars are so dense that
a teaspoon of them would be equal
to the weight of the entire Earth’s
population.
NN The Sun is 400 times larger than
the Moon but is 400 times further
away from Earth, making them appear
similar sizes.
CC Seasons last 21 years on
Uranus, while each pole has 42 years
of sunlight fol lowed by 42 years of
darkness.
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DD The pistol star is the most
luminous star known and is 10 million
times the brightness of the Sun.
QQ Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid
oceans of natural gas.
NN 90-99% of all normal matter in
the universe is hydrogen.
CC A full moon is nine times
brighter than a half moon.
DD Every year, the Moon is moving
away from Earth by 3.8 centimetres.
QQ Mars appears red because its
surface is covered with iron oxide (rust).
NN Rogue planets are not bound
by any star and so ‘free-float’ through
Space.
CC Sweeps 10 is the planet with the
shortest orbital period found. It orbits
its star in only 10 hours.
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DD The closest black hole to Earth is
only 1600 light-years away.
QQ It’s estimated that there are
between 10^22 and 10^24 stars in the
Universe.
NN The largest structure found in
the universe is the Sloan Great Wall, a
super cluster of galaxies 1.37 billion
light-years across.
CC Neutron stars can rotate up to
500 times in 1 second.
DD Even if you were able to travel
close to the speed of light (186000
miles per second) it would still take
100000 years to cross the Milky Way
galaxy.
QQ Proxima Centuari is the nearest
star to Earth after the Sun.
NN The temperature on Mercury
varies so extremely that it will rise up
to 430C during the day and drop as
low as -140C at night.
CC All 27 of Uranus’ moons are
named after William Shakespeare and
Alexander Pope characters.
DD With 63 moons, Jupiter has
the largest number of moons for any
planet in our solar system.
QQ Jupiter is so big that twice the
mass of the rest of the solar system’s
planets would still not be enough to
equal its mass.
NN A dwarf star is so dense that
it would take 8 men to lift a single
teaspoon of its matter.
CC Due to it’s size, Pluto is no longer
considered a planet and is now known
as a Dwarf Planet.
DD A new star is born in our galaxy
roughly every 18 days.
QQ The planet Venus does not
tilt as it goes around the Sun, so
consequently, it has no seasons.
NN It takes 165 years for Neptune
to orbit the Sun, meaning it has only
recently completed its first orbit since
its discovery in 1846.
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