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YOUNG CHRONICLE

November 21st , 2014

THE YOUNG CHRONICLE
The Space Story
light reaches earth and keeps us warm.
Rambo and Pranks have always wondered what’s
beyond the Solar systems. Papa told them that
there are more solar systems,
revolving around stars like the
sun.
Now, how can the Sun
be a star? Stars are
visible only at night!
Papa
had a tough time explaining.
Here’s what he said, ‘All the stars are as bright
as the sun, but are very very far away. That is
why they appear smaller and dimmer’. The Sun
on the other hand is the closest star to Earth.
During the day, the sun is so sharp that the
other stars are not visible, but at
night when the sun sets, the light
from the other stars brightens the
sky.
Why do stars
twinkle and the
sun doesn’t?
The Stars twinkle because
they
are extremely far away and the light they emit,
reaches Earth after years. This light doesn’t
reach us continuously and might have a gap of
seconds or minutes, which is why stars seem to
twinkle.
The Sun on the other hand, is very close and we
receive right from it almost continuously, which
is why the sun doesn’t seem to twinkle.

To know more about the Sun, watch the video by
Nasa, on page 5.
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What is NASA?
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. NASA is a United States government
agency that is responsible for science and technology
related to air and space. The Space Age started in 1957 with
the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik. NASA was
created in 1958. The agency was created to oversee U.S.
space exploration and aeronautics research.

What Does NASA Do?
Read on Page 6
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What is Beyond Our Solar System?
After understanding what NASA Does, Rambo and
Pranks our two very curious kids, were keen to know
what’s beyond the 8 planets in our Solar System. To
this mumma told them that there were many more Stars
like the Sun, which had a system of planets revolving
around them. Millions of these stars and planets made
one Galaxy. The galaxy Earth is in is called The Milky
way!
There are more galaxies that have been discovered in the universe, go
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How does the
Sun generate so
much light?
Well, the Sun, like all the other
stars, is a ball of gasses. The
sun fuses about 620 million
metric tons of Hydrogen each second. When we
say, ‘fuses’, we are essentially referring to the
collision of two or more Hydrogen atoms to form
Helium. This reaction generates a lot of energy
in the form of heat and light. This heat and

I am enjoying this,
but why are we
talking about Space in
this issue?

Because preparations for
the 25th Anniversary of
the Hubble Telescope have
started, a spacecraft
landed on a comet
recently.