| Show World Around And r uJ Now that we are arc moving into the space age it is good to ask ourselves how much we know about outer space Some of us have only a vague idea about the universe indeed the edi tor poses as no expert However However however How How- Information Information information in In- In- In ever the following general formation will enable the reader read read- er cr to get a better idea of oC space space travel and the future explorations lions which arc sure to lo come Beginning at the beginning the earth is one of oC nine planets which revolve in an l orbit around the sun We c din dinsee see five live of the ot other er planets planet with the naked eye Mercury Mercury Mer Mer- Mercury cury Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn Uranus Neptune and Pluto can be seen through a telescope Several of oC these nine planets have a moon or moons circling circling ling them We call our sun and everything revolving around it planets satellites moons comets meteors stars etc our solar system The sun and billions of oC other stars and suns form our gal gal- axy The universe contains an undetermined but great number number num num- ber of or galaxies Thus one can sec see how holy infinitesimal our solar system Is even even though the sun is 93 03 million miles away There are probably millions of suns But as yet we have not been able to verify verily the theory that other othel planets v e around these other suns we cannot see that far The next nearest sun after our sun is Alpha Stars twinkle and planets do donot donot not stars arc are globes of Intensely in intensely In- In tensel tensely heated gas not solids The sun then is our nearest star and and while it is but one of oC millions of suns probably a million earths would fit into it it is that large Thus when we tive talk tall about shooting a rocket toward the moon we ar are only at al the first hesitant step in exploring exploring ex ex- exploring outer space The day dayoC of oC exploration and discovery is not ended it is just beginning |
