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We owe everything we have to the Sun. If it weren’t for the Sun, there’d be no life on Earth. The relationship between Sun and Earth has gone back for 4.6 billion years, and should last for another 7 billion years or so. As you probably know, the Sun...

We owe everything we have to the Sun. If it weren’...

I’m sure you know that we live in the Milky Way galaxy, but where is the Sun located? And how did astronomers figure out where the Sun is located, since we’re living inside the galaxy? The Milky Way is a grand spiral galaxy, which astronomers think h...

I’m sure you know that we live in the Milky Way ga...

Before the age of electricity and fire, when the Sun went down, there wasn’t any light. The Moon was only bright enough a few days a month to provide much illumination. Ancient people believed that everything – including the Sun – went around the Ear...

Before the age of electricity and fire, when the S...

Ancient peoples thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe, and everything orbited around us. And the most dramatic event every day was the sunrise; when the Sun appeared to rise from the horizon and begin its daily journey across the sky....

Ancient peoples thought that the Earth was the cen...

Every day, the Sun rises in the East, makes its journey across the sky, and then sets in the West. And then, just a few hours later, the whole process happens again. But did you know that the Sun doesn’t take the same path every day? That’s because t...

Every day, the Sun rises in the East, makes its jo...

Each morning, the sun rises in the east, makes its slow journey across the sky, and then sets in the west. Then it continues a journey around the other side of the Earth, and rises again the next morning. This is how it looks from here on Earth, and ...

Each morning, the sun rises in the east, makes its...

The rotation of the Sun is kind of hard to pin down. That’s because a day on the Sun depends on which part of the Sun you’re talking about. Confused yet? It kept astronomers puzzled for years too. Let’s look at how the rotation of the Sun changes. A ...

The rotation of the Sun is kind of hard to pin dow...

We live in a colorful world. In many countries, colors represent various holidays; they are also used to express feelings and enliven language. Find your favorite color and see what it means around the world. Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and s...

We live in a colorful world. In many countries, co...

Green is the color of emeralds, jade, and growing grass. In the continuum of colors of visible light it is located between yellow and blue. Green is the color most commonly associated with nature and the environmental movement, Islam, spring, hope an...

Green is the color of emeralds, jade, and growing ...

Blue is the colour of the clear sky and the deep sea. On the optical spectrum, blue is located between violet and green. Blue is the colour of light between violet and green on the visible spectrum. Hues of blue include indigo and ultramarine, closer...

Blue is the colour of the clear sky and the deep s...

Purple Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. In additive light combinations it occurs by mixing the primary colors red and blue in varying proportions. It is a secondary color because two colors (blue and red) make up thi...

Purple Purple is a range of hues of color occurrin...

Yellow is the color of gold, butter, or ripe lemons. In the spectrum of visible light, and in the traditional color wheel used by painters, yellow is located between greenand orange. Yellow is commonly associated with gold, sunshine, reason, optimis...

Yellow is the color of gold, butter, or ripe lemon...

Fresh milk and snow both are the color white. White contains all the wavelengths of visible light without absorption, has maximum brightness, and does not have any hue. It is the opposite of black. In Western culture, white is the color most often as...

Fresh milk and snow both are the color white. Whit...

Black is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer space. It the darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white. Black was one of the first colors used by artists in neolithic cave paintings. In ...

Black is the color of coal, ebony, and of outer sp...

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. City with the most Rolls Royce's per capita: Hong Kong State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska Percentage of Africa that is ...

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read sm...

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." A group of unicorns is called a blessing. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." A group of frogs is called an army. A group of rhinos is called a...

Boris Karloff is the narrator of the seasonal tele...

One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles. Swahili is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese. A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian. An enneahedron is solid with ni...

One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that,...

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt. The tango originated as a dance between two men (for partnering practice). Leon Trotsky, the seminal Russian Communist, was assassinated in Mexico with a...

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a heig...

The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. Crickets hear through their knees. Turnips turn green when sunburnt. Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned. A...

The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey...

U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers. Today's cattle are descended from two spe...

U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered...

The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz." There are ten h...

The only bone not broken so far during any ski acc...