THE SUN AND THE PLANETS | Educational Videos for Kids

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Hello Happy Friends, look at these images, it's... the universe, see how many stars it has? There are millions and millions and it's beautiful isn't it? but... let's get closer to a very special star. This... is the Sun, the most important star in the universe... let's get to know it a little more!
The sun is the closest star to the Earth. That's why it seems to us the largest and the brightest one... but it is not true! There are stars much bigger than the Sun but, they are so far away that is why we see them so tiny.
The Sun is the most important star because it gives us light, heat and energy and thanks to it there is life on Earth, our planet...
Look if we move away from the Sun, we see that there are many stars that revolve around it.
These stars and the sun itself is what we call the Solar System. In the solar system there are eight planets and all of them, all of them move around the sun. Do you know the name of that movement that they make and that you can see in these images?
It's called translational motion... because they move around the sun. But do you know what the planets are called? no? well, here they are, one by one.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, our planet, yes, where we live, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus... and Neptune.
Now let's revise.
The Sun is a star and thanks to it there is life on planet Earth. The Solar System is the sun and all the stars that revolve around it and it has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Oh! I forgot. The motion that the planets make around the sun is called... translation movement.
Goodbye happy friends!