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V OG T  \nBoston Public Library  \n# G R E G O R Y L.VO GT\n\nTHE SUN  \nGateway Solar SystemThe Millbrook PressBrookfield Connecticut  \nThe images of the Sun on the cover and pages 7,10,and 13 wereacquired by the Soft X-ray Telescope on the Yohkoh solar researchspacecraft of the Japanese Institute of Space and AstronomicalScience.The Soft X-ray Telescope expenment is a Japan/U.S.collaboration involving the National Astronomical Observatory ofJapan,the University of Tokyo,and the Lockheed Palo Alto ResearchLaboratory.The U.S.work is supported by the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration.  \nCover photograph:The Sun's photosphere or apparent surface wasphotographed by the Yohkoh satellite on November 12,1991.Thesatellite is used to study X-ray radiaion emitted by the Sun.CourtesyNASAIJapanese Institute of Space and Astronomical Science.  \nPhotographs courtesy of Greg Vogt:p.4;NASA/Japanese Institute ofSpace and Astronomical Science:pp.7,10,13;National OpticalAstronomy Observatonies:pp.11(both),22,25;NASA:pp.12,14,  \n15,17,19,20,21,24(Dr.Chnistopher Burrows,ESA/STscl).  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nVogt,Gregory.  \nThe sun/Gregory L.Vogt.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.Summary:Presents information on the composition,atmosphere,and ongin of the Sun.  \nISBN 1-56294-600-5(lib.bdg.)ISBN0-7613-0160-7(pbk.)  \n1.Sun—Juvenile literature.[1.Sun.]I.Title.QB521.5V641996523.7—dc2095-19739 CIP AC  \nPublished by The Millbrook Press,Inc.2 Old New Milford RoadBrookfield,Connecticut 06804  \nCopyright ◎1996 by Gregory L.VogtAll nights reservedPrinted in the United States of Amenica  \n54321  \n# THE SUN\n\n| Some of the Sun's nearest star neighbors look like colorful streaks or \"star trails”in this picture.   |\n| --- |\n|  |\n| The photographic film was exposed for an hour to capture the faint star light.Because of the Earth’s   |\n| rotation,the stars appear to move across the sky,which creates the trails of liaht on the film   |\n\nur Sun is not a very big or a very bright star.Itis just one star in the huge Milky Way galaxy,home tohundreds of billions of stars.Although compared toother stars,our Sun is average,it is very important to us.  \nThe Sun is at the center of a solar system of 9 plan-ets,63 moons,and trillions of asteroids,comets,andmeteors.These planets,moons,and other heavenlybodies are held in place by the Sun's gravity.We live inthis solar system,on Earth,the third planet from theSun.Earth receives just the right amount of light andwarmth from the Sun to enable us and all living thingsto survive.If the Sun didn't exist,we wouldn't either.  \nWhen we think of stars,we think of thousands oftwinkling lights that flash in the clear night sky.Becausethe Sun is so big and bright and floods our sky withlight,we don't think of it as a star.The only real differ-ence between the night stars and the Sun,however,ishow far away they are from us.  \nThe Sun looks big and bright to us because it is notvery far away.It is only about 93 million miles(150 mil-lion kilometers)from Earth.That sounds like a great dis-tance,but compared to the other stars in the sky,theSun is only a hop,skip,and jump away.The next near-est star to us,Proxima Centauri,is more than 265,000  \ntimes as far away!If we could push the Sun deep intospace,to where some of the other stars are,we proba-bly wouldn't even be able to see it.  \nWhat is the Sun?How big is it?What is it made of?Where does the Sun get all the energy that it sends toEarth and out into space?We know that the Sun is astar,but what are stars?  \nStars are glowing balls of gas.Our star,the Sun,is a huge ball,864,000 miles(1,390,000 kilometers)indiameter.It is so large that if it were empty,you couldput 1 million planet Earths inside it.The Sun is also veryheavy.If you could put the Sun on one side of a gigan-tic seesaw,you would need 333,000 Earths on theother side to balance it.  \nHot Gases  \nThe Sun is a complicated world of seething hot gas","cbCaitqV4G1UnFwe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitqV4G1UnFwe","pdf",1588527,36,"English","# The Sun\n## Star neighbors and star trails\n## The Sun’s size and distance\n## What the Sun is made of\n## Hot gases and the Sun’s atmosphere\n## Fusion and energy reaching Earth","[{\"question\":\"Why don’t we think of the Sun as a star?\",\"answer\":\"The Sun is very big and bright and floods the sky with light, so it stands out differently from the twinkling night stars. 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