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Hi guys, Interested in stars, star constellations, planets and galaxies? Well, you have come to the right place! This is the perfect website to learn about Astronomy, and more! Welcome to Shiri and Tanna's amazing blog! Here you can play games, learn about your star sign and our planet, explore black holes, and generally enjoy yourselves! After you've answered some poles, scroll down to the bottom of the page for you to understand the answers! Click on the games page above to play games! If you would like to have some more fun at our blog, click on the Activity sheets above, copy and paste the activity sheet you want onto a Microsoft document, print it out, and do it! More fantastic activities and games will be coming soon. Feel free to comment, or let us know if something isn't working by sending us an email, or posting a comment. If the snow effect on our blog is distracting you, feel free to just tell us, email us, or post a comment. And don't forget to play and feed our fish! Good luck and have fun surfing our website! Shiri and Tanna ;-)

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Monday 18 July 2011

Whats going on with the stars?



Hi guys!

At this moment, we are lucky. Because we can see the Scorpion, the Southern cross and Alpha Centauri and the two pointers. The Southern cross is part of the Australian flag; it has 7 bright stars in it. The brightest star is at the bottom left corner, which is the commonwealth star. The commonwealth star has 7 points; while the others have 5 points. It is very special because it represents Australian culture. 

The two pointers are 2 stars; one bright one dark. If you look where the bright star is pointing, you can see a certain star, or star constellation.
If you see two stars that are quite close together, that is saturn. There are actually 3 stars, but the third is very faint. The stars that are the edges of saturn represent the rings around saturn, those are made out of chemicals and objects we can't get in our world, but some of them are solid rock, which we can get in our world. The ring may seem like you can't put your hand through it, but it is actually see through and you can walk straight through it.
If you would like to see with our telescope some stars, check this chart:

Tanna and Shiri ;-)



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We got this information from Dibonsmith. A very good website!
Shiri and Tanna

2 comments:

RK said...

You girls are STARS! Well done. Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Love Rama

Shiri Yehuda said...

Thank you Rama, we will....^_^


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