It's kind of sad that we are coming to an end of our Solar System Unit. The test is next week on Tuesday....Space is amazing. The sheer vastness of it, along with the trillions upon trillions of objects in the many billion galaxies of the universe is almost incomprehensible to the human brain. The sheer size of space makes it impossible to accurately predict just how many stars we have. Right now, scientists and astronomers use the number of stars only within our galaxy, The Milky Way, to estimate. That number is between 200-400 billion stars and there are estimated to be billions of galaxies so the stars in space really are completely uncountable. Tyler taught me about Venus! Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system and has an average surface temperature of around 450° C. Interestingly, Venus is not the closest planet to the Sun – Mercury is closer but because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate temperature it has a very large temperature fluctuation. There is SO much to learn about space that it blows my mind! Get this! If two pieces of metal touch in space they weld together! What? This incredible fact is also known as cold welding and it happens because the atoms of two pieces of metal have no way of knowing they are separate. This doesn’t happen on Earth because of the air and water found between the pieces. A NASA space suit costs 12 million dollars to make! Most of the money goes into the backpack and the control module. Recently scientists found water in space! Astronomers have found a massive water vapor cloud which holds 140 trillion times the mass of water in the Earth’s oceans somewhere around 10 billion light years away – making it the largest discovery of water ever found. We will stop talking about the Solar System for this year, but I hope all of you will keep looking up and wondering, asking questions and dreaming about what is up in space.
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Allysa Bullock
12/3/2017 07:41:41 pm
OMG!😐😐😄😄😄😯😯 Seriously 😒 you guys it is Sunday over the weekend and i’m The only person to post What the heck!! The field trip was awesome 👏! That you Mrs.Taylor for always putting the blog together for us! Thank you 🙏!
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KENNEDY
12/3/2017 08:06:39 pm
HI MRS.TAYLOR HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GOOD WEEKEND AND I KNOW ITS SUNDAY;{
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KENNEDY
12/3/2017 08:09:48 pm
YES I AM THE MASTER OF TOMATOES:0
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tyler
12/3/2017 08:42:15 pm
Nooooooooooooooooo! more space!!!!!
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Errol
12/4/2017 07:40:31 am
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING NEXT!!!!!!! How to make cupcakes!!!! It IS science!!!! ;)
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Sadie
12/4/2017 10:33:11 am
We should make cupcakes! Good job Mrs. Taylor!
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Harmony
12/4/2017 10:34:22 am
Good job on the blog Mrs. Taylor!
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