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The Day The Sun Went Away!Loading...
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By: Brett Bibeault, Logan Williams, and Marley Hutchings
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
These two talented authors make their first ever book appearance in the one and only "The Day the Sun Went Away", teaching boys and girls about solar eclipses.
About Marley
The Sun!
Did you know my surface heat Is 27 million degrees? That's Really hot!
The Sun is very far away from the earth. It is about 91 million miles away from the earth. The Sun is also very big. It can fit about a million earths in it. The Sun is a valuable player in eclipses, which you will learn more about later in the book. The Sun is also a huge part of orbit, or the way the earth and other planets in our solar system move in a circle around the Sun. The Sun is the first player in eclipses.
The moon
If you ever look up in the sky at night you can almost always see the Moon. The Moon is a big part of both of the two types of eclipses. The Moon has been explored by astronauts and if you look at it you might see what is called "the man on the moon". This is a face made up of the craters in the Moon. The Moon is the second player in eclipses.
There are still American flags and cameras on my surface from astronauts that came in the past! Cool Right!
The earth
The Earth is the planet we live on. Did you know that our planet is made up of 71% water? That's a lot of water! The Earth is the third player in eclipses and where we can see all eclipses from. Pretty cool right!
Hey! You live here!
Eclipses and the different types
There are two different types of eclipses. There are lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. A solar eclipse is when the moon moves in front of the sun. A lunar eclipse is when the earth shadow strikes over the surface of the moon dimming it and turning it a red color for a few hours. The types we will be seeing on April 8th is a solar eclipse. The next on you will every be able to is 55 years from now, on May 1st, 2024.