The Sun

She was just another Tumblr girl running lightheartedly along the almost empty LA beach. The warm setting sun beat down on her deep olive tone skin and her bleach blonde hair was waving in the wind, while the white, wet sand flicked up behind her with every moving step she took. Her best friend was running alongside her with a long strand of seaweed in her hands. The sky was a mix of colors. Bright bold red intertwined with the honey yellow sitting on top of the neon blue sky. It was like a…

Venus is also the only planet that is named for a female.” ("Venus, Second Planet from the Sun, Brightest Planet in Solar System." Space.com. Web. 30 Apr. 2014) Venus has fewer impact craters than any other planet. Also unlike most planets, Venus turns clockwise on its axis, as opposed to counter-clockwise. This is called retrograde rotation. It is said that this is because of their close position to the Sun. Appearing to be a nice golden color, the pictures we see of Venus is actually showing…

Without the Sun, the Earth and everything on Earth would cease to exist; the Sun is sustaining life. Nonetheless, the Sun doesn’t require the Earth to survive so it may seem outlandish for it to play such a large role in the well being of an insignificant planet. The benefits of the Sun to Earth are evident but what is much more imperceptible are the positive ramifications that are experienced by the Sun. If the Sun stopped emitting heat and light not only would the solar system suffer but the…

Laying on the fresh cut grass of your lawn, you watch the sun sink behind the mountains as day subtly fades into night. There is always a minute of darkness as the city holds its breath. No street lights. No cars. Just you and the sky and… the faint glow of a star. Seeing the first star that night, you make a wish and remember the first time you saw one. You still wonder what that speck of light is—How it got to be up there, why it sometimes is so bright and other times so faint, and how it…

mathmatics and astronomy at the Protistant School in the city of Graz, Austria. Kepler believed that Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system was right. He believed that the sun exerted a force on the planets orbiting around it. Kepler published "Mystery of the Cosmos" in 1596, which explaned logicaly why the sun was the center of our solar system. Kepler belived his theory suported Copernicus's theory, and before presenting his own theory, he would often provide arguments for…

will come out behind the clouds called the sun. She says “it’s so bright that you can’t look at it very long or else your eyes will burn right off”. But I don’t believe her it has been raining forever and no sign of “the sun”. She was different she never hung out with us, not that I would want her to. She just stood there looking out the window waiting for this imaginary “sun” We read a book about it in class it had to be real now they said that the sun will come out tomorrow. It’s the next…

The next morning was dry. Rey woke late, the sun was blinding, penetrating the small holes in the roof of her low shelter. Stepping out with her still-bloody robes, Rey shielded her eyes from the blinding sun. Looking over the edge of the high dune that her camp is situated on, she remarks, “No clouds in sight, it’s gonna get hot today!” With her goggles toning down the bright sun, Rey hobbles down the dune and heads west towards Traders Den. Following the indent from an ancient crash, the…

planet where the sun shines once every seven years, and when it isn’t shining its raining. Well that is what the main character of Ray Bradbury’s short story “All Summer in a Day” had to go through. Margot, the main character, moved from Ohio to the planet Venus, when she was only four years old. She had been living on Venus for about five years and it was hard for her since the sun meant so much to her. She got picked on and bullied a lot, just because she was so obsessed with the sun. She…

The planet Jupiter is one of the five objects to be visible from Earth in the solar system. Of these bodies it is the second largest behind the sun. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System with a mass of 1.899x1027kg orbiting at 5.2AU from the Sun. Jupiter is orbited by 67 moons of which the first four are called the Galilean moons as of their discovery in 1614 by Galileo. Jupiter formed about 4.6billion years ago from the cloud of dust and gas that made up the early Solar System.…

times larger than the Earth's sun. It's so big that if it were in our sun's position, it would swallow up Earth beneath its 10,000°F surface. To look at it from your spaceship, you have to wear special goggles--this star is almost a million times brighter than our sun. As you watch HR 5171A burn, you notice something strange. An object is peeking over the horizon, growing larger and larger. It's another sun--a smaller one that orbits the giant HR 5171 A. This small sun (though it's still about…