Print these wonderful NASA Space Place Valentine’s Day cards and give them to family and friends!
Space
There are many galaxies besides the Milky Way Galaxy we call home. There are so many, we can’t even count them all yet! The Hubble Space Telescope looked at a small patch of space for 12 days and found 10,000 galaxies, of all sizes, shapes, and colors. Some scientists think there could be as many as one hundred billion galaxies in the universe.
Sun
The sun sends lots of energy toward us all the time. There are a few different kinds of energy. There is infrared radiation, which is heat. There is visible light, which is what our eyes can see. There is also ultraviolet light. We can’t see ultraviolet with our eyes, but it’s there. And it can burn our skin.
Earth
Earth and the moon are very good friends, but they’re not as close as they seem. They’re actually really far apart. The moon is an average of 238,855 miles (384,400 km) away. How far away is that? That’s 30 Earths. And the moon is moving very slowly away from us. It gets about 1 inch farther away each year. But don’t worry. They’ll still be friends for a very long time!
Solar System
We finally got to visit Pluto, Charon, and the Kuiper Belt! On January 19, 2006, NASA launched a robot spacecraft on the long journey. This mission is called New Horizons. The spacecraft arrived at Pluto in July 2015, and it will continue to study other objects in the Kuiper Belt from about 2018 to 2022.
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Launched in 1998, NASA Space Place’s mission is to inspire and enrich upper-elementary-aged kids’ learning of space and Earth science online through fun games, hands-on activities, informative articles and engaging short videos.
With material in both English and Spanish and resources for parents and teachers, NASA Space Place has something for everyone.
