{"id":438,"date":"2017-12-21T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp11617\/?p=438"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:06:20","slug":"astronomy-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp11617\/2017\/12\/21\/astronomy-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A big thank you to Colin and Alan who kept P2 entertained with a question and answer session about the Sun, Moon and other areas of the Solar System.<\/p>\n

We also had the chance to look through a huge telescope.<\/p>\n

What do you think we saw?<\/p>\n

Here are some questions we asked:<\/p>\n

How many stars can we see? Roughly 2 thousand<\/p>\n

Do the stars only come out at night? No, they are in the sky all the time. We only see them when the sky is dark.<\/p>\n

How cold is the Moon? The Sun heats up the Moon but, it is still too cold for humans to survive there. <\/p>\n

How big are stars? Many stars are bigger than the Earth.<\/p>\n

What is the Earth made of? The core of the Earth is liquid iron. <\/p>\n

How wide is the Sun? About I million Earths could fit inside the Sun.<\/p>\n

Fact : The red stars are the coolest and the blue stars are the hottest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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