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SPACE CONTENTS METRIC IMPERIAL DATES MEASUREMENTS AND ABBREVIATIONS mm millimetre cm centimetre m metre km kilometre sq km squar ...

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6 How to use the website The homework encyclopedia has its own website. When you look up a subject in the book, the article give ...

How to use the website^7 Click on your chosen link... Take a tour of a space station 5 4 animations videos sound buttons virtual ...

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SPACE How to use the website Space Astronomy Observatories Constellations Solar System Sun Earth Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupite ...

10 Space WHERE DOES SPACE BEGIN? From Earth, space begins at the outer edge of our planet’s atmosphere. There is no clear line b ...

Space^11 WHAT DO ASTRONOMERS STUDY TODAY? Modern astronomers are trying to answer big questions about the Universe. By studying ...

12 Space Astronomers gather information about space in buildings called observatories. Many astronomers use an optical telescope ...

Space^13 Groups of bright stars that appear close together in the sky are called constellations. They form patterns that never s ...

14 Space WHAT ARE THE MAIN BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM? The Earth is one of eight. PLANETS in the Solar System. Most planets have ...

Space^15 At the centre of the Solar System is the Sun, a vast globe of glowing gas that pours energy into space as light and hea ...

16 Space The planet we live on is the third closest planet to the Sun. It takes one year to orbit the Sun, and one day to spin a ...

Space^17 In space, the closest object to Earth is the Moon. It orbits Earth and appears to change shape as it moves – the differ ...

A rocky sphere, with a huge iron core, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It can sometimes be glimpsed from Earth near th ...