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Stargazers,
is an absolutuly free website made for astronomy lovers from all over
the world. This website, a creation of ,
brings people from all around the world together and lets them share their
ideas and views. It has, for example, loads of information about all the
planets and other astronomical website.
StarGazers is an ideal website for all people - young or old. If you have
any suggestions or ideas for this club, please kindly mail them to .
You
can and get access to things such as chat, downloads, fact-bags,
polls and much more!
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Astro
Fact-Bag |
- The closest star besides
our sun is Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.23 light years.
- The sun rotates on its axis
about once a month.
- The density of the sun is
1 1/2 times that of water.
- Some stars are 600,000 times
a bright as our sun.
- Our moon is moving away from
the earth at about 3cm per year.
- The escape velocity of Mars
is only 5.03 kilometers per second as compared with Earth's 11.2
kps escape velocity.
- Jupiter rotates about its
axis in only 9 hours, 55 minutes, as compared with 23 hours, 56
minutes for Earth.
- Pluto has the largest comparative
satellite in the solar system. Charon is nearly half as large
as Pluto.
- Quasars are the most distant
objects in the known universe.
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