Solar+System+by+Elijah

 Did you know that the sun is really is a star? The sun lies in the solar system and it gives the earth energy. The average distance between the sun and the earth is roughage is 9 million miles. Earth is the third closets planet to the sun. Because of its coldness, the sun seems much larger and brighter than its stars. Does the sun really rises in the east and set in the west? Aha! During the day the sun appears to move across the sky. This not caused by the sun moving. Instead it is really the earth turning on its axis. This movement of the earth causes the sun to appear as if it is rising over the eastern horizon at dawn and disappears over the western horizon is he place where the sky appears to meet the ground, or hill tops.