ASTRONOMY

THE SUN

• It helps plants make food, creates the ocean currents.
• The atmosphere of the sun is composed of several layers.
• It holds 99.8 percent of the solar system mass
• The sun moves from east to west
• The sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way

COMET

• Comets are made out of dust and ice.
• Comets have tails extending swat form the main body
• Comets look like fireballs in the sky
• Most comets travel on long oval paths called ellipses
• Most comets passes mars.

TELESCOPE/SPECTRASCOPE

• A spectroscope helps you find out what stars are made of
• Spectroscope breaks down the light emitted or absorbed by chemical elements
• In specific lines of color every chemical elements his a " fingerprint " of its own hat can be used to identify it thre
• Fingerprints are generally produced when electrons change orbital level as they gain or lose energy
• It's position above the atmosphere. Which distort and breaks the sun that reaches . It has beam hundreds of thousands of imaged

TELESCOPE/SPECTROSCOPE

• Back earth , shedding light. Newer ground-based
• Telescope are using technological advances

SOURCES

• http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/comets.ht...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
• www.telescopes.com
• http://releases.jhu.edu/2013/10/30/jhu-astronomer-awarded-9-5-million-to-cr...
• http://www.swosu.edu/academics/physics/astronomy/index.aspx