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M T hi HhmIU Juuriiil LtjiM Utah Sunday Ott-!"- r 1 ' nr r-°- -r i Tke Foster ie an attractive educational wfrwnce The Mpn atpmb--the iaCooatltulioa illuatntad will' rrpnxhirtiona of the and Manatum and r pntnuU bnrt dncnptwna nf the men hrhind th‘ making of our Conatilutmn ia Thr included 7b ordt-- r aand duck or money under only far $250 plua 78 emu puahw and In: K4I4I The na PO Poatar Kanaaa Boi Mo 41KM2 Sipae jundting per copy City Maka chacka payable lo Andrrwa and MrMerl Go dot to dot and letter to letter and color 1C n 9 j f'y II’ IS VlliL-l’l- a By BETTY DEBNAM frcm ft MM Earth’s Closest Star Faya by My C 20 The Stupendous Sun If the sun were not there we would not be here To us the sun is the moat important object in the million" mill' away Light lakes a little more than eight minutes to roach us from the sun Light lakes more than four years to reach us from the next closest star Light travels at 1X6 282 miles a second A star is a big hall of gases mashed together The gases are mostly hydrogen with a small amount of helium oxygen and all of the other elements we find on Earth Stars an so hot that they turn everything even iron into a gas The Ulysses is the first spaced n't in h study the poles of the slo (o portion -- an telescope on ed is more than 47 billion years old Scientists lielieve it will live for another 5 billion years before it swells up arid bums up the Earth is about 10000 degrees F oii its “little ice age" Another time h'l-a lot more sunspot- liiui that time sum" u an increase m I n Miner -- i 1 1 - is about 27 million degrees F in the middle 7 nii n-i- i iti-- ts I: Iimwi you- - in- 7) TIiuM' surface '' 'GhI I’lh I - i )m mg ''un wa You can snfdy sec pictures of the sun at this web site: http Wumbranascom nasagovt images' latest html Sunshine Eggs butter or margarine ! The Mm Pegs by Hfty 6ar C 'DM fpe M c ’VW Free - 4- IM ipfa P' SUN THE are I T GORDYHRC E gives us weather Im- - m - heat creates wind the water cycle -- i V 1 y 'J kwMMe Ratnorewowl Mi° - C E S H B V Plants use the energy from the sun to make food for themselves If there were no plants there would be nothing for us to eat Animals and people eat plants or they eat animals that eat plants :i S P O T S U N - - V '' gives us food un gives plants the energy to make their they need is sunlight water chemicals hi- -i- d and carbon dioxide ‘ole they art! making their fond plants give ofT hidden in the block b at remind us of the sun Sorr-- words are hidden backward or diryjor-ailSee if ci find SUNSPOTS ECLIPSE STAR SKY LIGHT HEM HOT GASES HYDROGEN STORMS SUN SHINE HE F LEG E HAS EARTH PLANETS SEASONS OHilT fJlGHT I A il All -- Telling time People have boon tailing time with sundials for thousands of years A stick la placed In the middle of a circle or dial Hours are written around the dial As the eun appears to move from east to west the shadow from the stick alto moves You can tefl time -- i by reading VV? where the shadow falls on Sto- sK-ci- THY N FIND pie! Q: What is the tallest building? library because it has the most stories! (all Jokes aent ia by Katie Bring) The oxygen we breathe is made by a process called photosynthesis ’ Boo-berr- y A: The breathe - hmm) Q: What is a monster’s favorite dessert? A: enables iis to Th- DA KietTY The sun ur-ii- tf B The Mighty Sun -- by MU fey M © ESTsMSimS V or a pa try cutter cut a hole n the middle ol piece of bread 2 Melt butler or margarine in a frying pan over medium beii l brown Pi in- - bread in living pan Took on both side- Add more butter or margarine if needed I Kenove bread and plan- - ori a baking sheet 7 Break ari egg into the hole in the broad e fi I’1 'ike in a preheated wen for Id nunuh - or mle egg get- - hard Makes 2 Words Ha 1H MM Earth What to do: MwHga 3 never I eggs TOM 26 mu'll it: The most ill the world the thing nth possible is You'll need: s S V c Agency -- Rookie Cookie’s Recipe gla-- E F ComnMkm Several international space probes are looking at ureas of the sun that have been hidden until now One of these SOHO aunched in December 1995 is getting a closer look at the sun’s hot wind and storms It will be watching the sun constantly for the next few years It can even lake movies of the sun’s activity SOHO and the spacecraft Ulysses arc joint projects of NASA and the European Space -1 i star a 6 25 27 Sun studies Even though the uo eM object iri our ky we know very lifli about Scu uii-- ! - we: to learn how the un itli-c- - us Many believe the climute on KirlF Once from 1715 the to disappear Tempeiuture-droppe- l'l I'-i- 13 hour They can liecome as large as the sun Flares are blasts of energy i hat give ofT huge amounts of radiation Some of this radiation can tie dangerous to astronauts Sunspots are cooler areas of the sun that usually come and go in cycles They look like dark spots when seen from a Sun and Earth is so huge that about million Earths could fit inside it But it is still for a only average-size- d 1 1 D 1 The sun pi re- - of bread C 11 17 are huge blobs of gases shooting from the sun at a few li' tuhlf-prxi- II Corona ejections Tin sun in l lie star closest to Earth almiit ?t: million miles from us The net tir is alsiut 26 trillion '1 13 0 The sun’s many powerful storms can interfere with communications navigation and power systems on Earth The sun is surrounded by its own atmosphere called the corona Sensational sun summary 2 H ia 15 Storms of fire universe It n J I T C T -- Il ( il li- ' ? A ' ry ’J'IX' © hanges water into an va)or over oceans iver- - and streams lAaporationi e vapor cools and turns into clouds (Condensation) clouds cool down more and more and turn into rain hail sleet I ar k into the oceans hut some falls on land (Precipitation) ! I SON ' Ti v or snow Most falls Almost all water finds its way back into oceans through rivers and underground ources The cycle starts all over again 1 gives us light to see by Even at night we use light coming one SM ? MS rMa ’SM roea r-- rr Mini Spy Msr:i Spy ha- - N-r- - “ - V— a good gard- - n if you can find - - thir- - year tha’iks to - - I -- prf ' 'Vji - fj V-- A Jfr y ' y s l' Sunrise sunset I i i liM - ’io’ Tf-r- dig cun ? r - : Start arc grouped together In galaxies The atm la one of more than 100 F billion stars In the Milky Way galaxy - ‘ire the sun i a really iGh rotetes Un- mini -- Solar system 'i i‘ rMtk k f i ' ! !h :i i - the sun The moon shines with reflected sunlight We use fossil fuels made from dead plants to make electricity way or another from m Lr’r T if it r’ v 1 ! n" "ii li' i' only part time It is " un and -- We can Ml direction from the sun R always seta In the weet and rite In the eaeL Mare Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto The Mini Page thanks Geoffrey Chaster of Bre National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian InatRutton Washington OC end Miriam Forman scientist NASA headquarters Next week read about a 13 HaBowaan scare from Mare and real Martian excitement today Ca |