Solar+System+by+Kailey

 Suns and Stars Did you know that Jupiter is not only the biggest planet but is made of giant storms that have come together? Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars are the inner planets and Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are the outer planets. Pluto is a dwarf planet. The asteroid belt is what divides the inner and outer planets. The solar system is really just the sun and everything that revolves around it. Planets rotate on an axis and the sun also rotates and revolves. It has made 20 trips around the galaxy and will make more. The sun is a pretty big star but as you may know, the sun is only a medium sized star. There are stars (suns) over 100,000 times bigger. Suns are gigantic balls of gas. They glow and that is probably why they are so hot. Suns have sunspots. Sunspots are blemishes. A solar flare is a sudden explosion that comes from the sun’s surface. Solar prominence is a bright gas formation that bursts from the sun’s crust and is pulled by the sun’s magnetic field. All stars are suns. Not all suns are as hot or as cool as the sun. But most fascinating is that the stars in formation (little guys) are as small as plankton. Well, we have come to a conclusion. All stars are suns. So all stars are warm, but not all are as hot as our sun. The bigger the star the warmer it is. The sun has times that it is so hot it sometimes bursts with solar flares and solar prominence.