Star gazing

Hi everyone.


If you would like to see some stars in the night, here is some information and tips on what to do or what you should do when you are star gazing.


Each night, many people love to look at stars in the sky. Star gazing is one of the world's most popular activity to do. To begin your star gazing, you need absolutely nothing, except your eyes. If you would like to see stars in an amazing view, try star gazing miles away from light poles, or bright things. Try going somewhere that is very dark so the stars will stand out in the night sky. Let your eyes get used to the dark before you start to star gaze.

Wrapping up tight Trailing stars
On cold nights, wear very Even with a simple
warm clothes such as camera you can take
coats, jumpers, a scarf, pictures of the night
and some gloves. These sky!
clothes will keep your body
warm.

Some people like warm things

A hot chocolate, with a snack or

another drink such as water will

keep you warm and keep the

cold out.

Jot what you saw

Take a notebook and a

pencil and write down what
you saw.

The stars look brightest on clear, cold winter nights. The night sky is full of stars. Just using our eyes, we can see way more stars then what we think we can see. In some places in space, great glowing clouds of gas and dust appear among the stars. These special clouds are named Nebulas.

More information coming soon!

Shiri and Tanna

Planet Days

Hi guys!

We thought we would tell you a bit more about planets. 

Planet days

Planet Mercury
Year: 88 earth days
Day: 59 earth days

Planet Venus
Year: 225 earth days
Day: 243 earth days

Planet Earth
Year: 365.25 earth days
Day: 24 hours

Planet Mars
Year: 1.9 earth years
Day: 24.6 hours

Planet Jupiter
Year: 11.9 earth years
Day: 9.8 hours

Planet Saturn
Year: 29.5 earth years
Day: 10.2 hours

Planet Uranus
Year: 84 earth years
Day: 17.9 hours

Planet Neptune
Year: 165 earth years
Day: 19.2 hours

Dwarf Planet Pluto
Year: 248 earth days
Day: 6.4 earth days

If you are really really really interested on knowing more about planets, and would like to read more about your favourite planet or another planet, you have two choices (optional. Please note that this is not something you have to do).


*If you go to a school, search in your library for astronomy books
*Scroll down to the bottom of the blog to know more!


Thanks!


Shiri and Tanna

Galaxies

Hi guys!


We thought we would tell you some information on galaxies.


Stars are grouped together in galaxies. There are billions and billions of galaxies in our universe, each containing millions of stars. Our solar system, is a tiny part of the galaxy; the Milky way.


Galaxy shapes


There are the four types of galaxy shapes.

Barred spiral galaxies have a bar across
the bright middle with an arm at each end
of the bar.

Spiral galaxies have a bright middle
with two or more curved arms of stars
spiralling out from it.

Elliptical galaxies can be round,
oval, like the one shown here, or

even sausage shaped! Irregular galaxies, such as this one, are often formed when one galaxy crashes into another.

Our galaxy


Because our planet is located in the milky way, we cannot see from the outside and it is very difficult to tell exactly what shape the milky way galaxy is. But most astronomers think that it is spiral shaped. Compared to many other galaxies, the milky way is pretty big. It is about 100,00 light years across and it contains more than 2 thousand trillion stars.


More information coming soon to this post!


Shiri and Tanna ;-)

Stardust - Magic by Believing

Woo hoo!


Our new book is finally finished! Go to Our books, in Pages at the top of the page, and read a little intro on the start of our book!


Please note that more information will be coming soon!


Thank you for reading everything we have posted!


Shiri and Tanna

Hi guys!


Since we don't know what to post until we finish our first book, we decided we'd tell you a little bit of history from making our blog.


How did we get the idea of making a blog?
Well, we got the idea from our book, but we got the idea on making a book from Linda Chapman's series; Stardust. We would like to thank Linda Chapman for bringing up such a great idea of a book, and if you wouldn't have wrote it, we wouldn't be writing on this website right now. So thank you!


How did you start forming your book?
We started to form our book by starting off looking at Linda Chapman's "Lucy's magic Journal". We decided to make it like a recount, so it is actually true, and not fantasy. Then we decided we would tell in the book some facts and figures of Astronomy, Stardust Spirits, and more. Soon we had the most delightful book and soon will be on this website to read!


How did you start forming your blog?
Well, again, if we didn't have our book, we wouldn't have a blog. Firstly, we didn't know a website that could make blogs! So then, we searched up some websites of Astronomy, and found one from the creators of Gmail; Blogger! We were so excited and started straight away! We named our blog Believe in Stardust! With the link: believestardust.blogspot.com
Soon, loads and loads of people viewed it, and now it's one of the tops sites on Astronomy! We succeeded a lot!


How are you happy about everything that's going on now?
We are extremely happy, and would like to add more stuff for kids, and even adults. A whole heap of games is set up on a page, and loads of fun activity sheets for you to complete and send to us! We are really proud and happy of what we achieved and created.


Thank you!


Shiri and Tanna

Black Holes

Hi guys!


We've posted this on our blog a couple of months ago, but there is one thing from the book that has made us really interested on putting it up for you!
Since we wrote that we will teach you guys about black holes, it was about time we did. 
Please note that some of the information on black holes will be in read font because the information was from the book by Steven Hawking; George's secret key to the universe.


What is a black hole? A black hole is a large black hole that it's gravity is so strong that anything that tries to get out of a black hole gets dragged back. A black hole, is like a dead end on the streets. If you got sucked up into a black hole, you can't come back out from the same way you came in.


The edge of a black hole is called a "Horizon". This is like the edge of a waterfall. If you are above the edge, you can get away if you paddle fast enough, but once you pass the edge, you're doomed.


When more and more things get sucked up into a black hole, the black hole gets bigger, and stronger. 


How is a black hole made? One way that a black hole starts, is when a dead planet explodes. This is formed, because inside planets actually make new planets with their fuel. But once that fuel has run out to make new planets, the planet creating the new planets explodes of nitrogen, and black holes are formed. 


Can you see a black hole? Generally, you can't, because no light can get out of a black hole. But you can detect a black hole, because you notice that things from space are getting sucked up by a U.F.O. 


Normally, we can see a large black disc sucking up something, but that barely happens, because once again, no light can get out of a black hole.


Falling into a black hole You can fall into a black hole, just as you can fall into the sun. If you fall feet first, your feet will be nearer to the black hole then your head and will be pulled harder by the gravity of the black hole. So you will be stretched out length wise and squashed in sideways. The stretching and squeezing is weaker the bigger the black hole is. If you fall into a black hole made by a star only a few times the size of our sun, you will be torn apart and made into spaghetti before you can even reach the black hole. 


If you fall into a much bigger black hole, you will pass the horizon - the edge of a black hole and the point of no return - without noticing anything particular. 


Getting out of a black hole Technically, people believe that when you get sucked into a black hole, there is no way out. But then it was discovered that this picture wasn't quite right. Tiny fluctuations in space and time meant that black holes couldn't be the perfect traps they were once thought; instead they would slowly leak particles in the form of Hawking Radiation. The rate of leakage is slower the bigger the black hole is.


The Hawking Radiation would cause black holes to gradually evaporate. The rate of evaporation will be very slow at first, but it will speed up as the black hole gets smaller. 


So you see, that you can get out of a black hole. After billions of years, the black hole won't be in prison. When it leaks particles out, they are actually pieces of something or someone that has been sucked into a black hole. If you take out every single particle the black hole has sucked, you can maybe form someone or something that has been sucked into a black hole.


Thank you for reading!


Shiri and Tanna


P.S If you would like to see a video of black holes, scroll down to the bottom of all the posts, and click play on the video "The largest black holes in the universe". Thanks!

The Oasis

Hi guys!


Have you ever been to the Oasis before? Well, if you don't know what we are talking about, here is a brief information report of the Oasis. (Forest)


Where is the Oasis located? The Oasis is located in Manwaring Ave, at the end of the street. The Oasis has two pathways; one leads to a park, and the other leads to a swamp, or a giant park where dogs usually play in.




What creatures live in the Oasis? We don't know any specific creatures, but we'll just tell you what we know and think what creatures live in it. Snakes, lots of them, Spiders, gazillions of them, bugs, crickets, frogs, beetles, ants, owls, flies and mosquitoes etc.


If you would like to see or hear more, we will post the story of us visiting the Oasis on our blog, or tell you more about the Oasis in the future.


Thank you!


Shiri and Tanna ;-)