Our topic this term is the night sky, so I thought that I should present a few facts about the night sky.
Aurora Australis (The southern lights) are formed when the sun releases flares and they are carried to the earth. It interacts with earths magnetic field and creates a stunning image that only shows up certain times in a year. A neutron star is formed when a sun dies and the core creates lots of neutrons. The star can’t be too dense, or it will create a black hole. Don’t worry though; the closest black hole to us is 1560 light years away and will not do anything to earth, and our sun isn’t dense enough to become a black hole. The Kuiper Belt is a massive collection of asteroids, debris, and dwarf planets that surround the whole solar system. A quasar is the core of a galaxy that emits an insane amount of light. When particles fall into the quasar, it emits electromagnetic radiation.