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• The Sun is so massive that it would take about 1,300,000 Earths lined up side by side to equal the Sun's diameter.
• Alternatively, you could fit approximately 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun.

Explanation

• The Sun is approximately 109 times larger than the Earth in terms of diameter.
• The Sun's diameter is about 1,392,684 kilometers (865,374 miles).
• The Earth's diameter is about 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles).
• So, if you were to line up 109 Earths side by side, they would roughly equal the diameter of the Sun.

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• The Solar System consists of eight planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter), dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids.
• Other smaller bodies that orbit around the Sun due to its gravitational pull.

Explanation

The second smallest planet is Mars,

It is about half the size of the Earth with a 2,106-mile radius. 

Mars is sometimes called the Red Planet.

It's red because of rusty iron in the ground.

Number of moons on Mars: 2

Additional information:

The planets in order of size, listed from biggest to smallest:

1. Jupiter: 43,441-mile radius.
2. Saturn: 36,184-mile radius.
3. Uranus: 15,759-mile radius.
4. Neptune: 15,299-mile radius.
5. Earth: 3,959-mile radius.
6. Venus: 3,760-mile radius.
7. Mars: 2,106-mile radius.
8. Mercury: 1,516-mile radius

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The main reason why the "Sun always rises in the east” is that the Earth spins or rotates to its east

and thus all the planets, Sun, Moon, and Stars rise from the east direction

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there are two points in the year when day and night are approximately equal in duration. 

This is called an equinox.

The equinoxes occur around:

• March 20th-21st 
• September 22nd-23rd each year.
  

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The world’s largest plant- the ribbon weed (Posidonia australis) has been discovered off the West Coast of Australia in June 2022.

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“shooting stars” are called meteors

Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the ground

Shooting stars are little rocks from space that catch fire as soon as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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Pluto is currently the most distant planet from the Sun, though as you probably know Pluto was “demoted” to dwarf planet status in August 2006.

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• The majority of known asteroids orbit within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, generally with not very elongated orbits.

  Asteroids are the rocky remnants of material leftover from the formation of the solar system and its planets approximately 4.6 billion years ago.