This document provides an overview of key components of space, including the planets in our solar system, satellites that orbit planets and are sent by humans, moons that orbit planets, the sun as a large star that provides light and heat to Earth, stars as hot balls of gas that vary in color, meteors as hot rocks that zoom through space, and shooting stars which is another term for meteors.

1. SPACE
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2. PLANETS
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• (Pluto)

3.  This is a satellite.
SATELLITES
 Satellites are sent into space
by humans to take photos.

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 Moons are rocks that move
around & around a certain
planet.
MOONS
This is earths moon.

5. THE SUN
The sun is a very big, hot star that
gives light & heat to earth.
No human could get to the sun
because they would sizzle up way
before they reached it.
 This is the sun.

6. STARS
Stars are hot balls of gas.
The hotest are coloured blue & white,
and the coldest are orange & yellow.
 These are stars.

7. METEORS
Meteors are big, hot bits of rock that
zoom around space banging into
things. They could smash your
spaceship to pieces.
 These are meteors.

8. SHOOTING STARS
Shooting stars are another name
for a meteorite shooting across
space.
 This is a shooting star.