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Just as an orange is surrounded by peel, the Earth is surrounded all around by a 640 km thick shell of air. This shell can be broken down into various layers and it comprises of about 20 different types of gases out of which Nitrogen and Oxygen h…
Man made his first journey into space in the year 1961. The distinction of this feat goes to Yuri Gagarin who went into space in a Russian built ‘Vostok’ spacecraft on the 12th of April 1961. He made his first orbit auound the Earth and returned in 10…
Spot of the Sun If we observe the Sun by projection its image through a pair of binocuars onto a white piece of cardboard, we would see that it has black spot on it, these are known as ‘Sun apot’. These black spots are areas which get cooled down …
Unlike other planets and even our own moon, the Earth has relatively stable temperature conditions and compared to other planet it doesn’t become too hot or cold. This is primarily possiblt because of the Earth’s atmosphere which acts like a shie…
It cannot be said with conviction that the Earth is the only planet with any life on it because astronomers and space scientists are still trying to look for life on other planets. From what we know of other planets it is however established that…
When Neil Armstrong first welded on the Moon’s surface he did so in leaps and bounds he found it easy to pick up things since there was a weak counter gravitational force on the Moon. The Moon has a gravity which is one-sixth of the Earth’s. As i…
The Moon The Moon is our nearest neighbour in space and a natural satellite. It was believed earlier that the Moon was a piece of the Earth which broke away billions of years ago. Today the astronomers believe that both the Earth and Moon were fo…
Milky Way The Milky way is one of the many galaxies in the universe and the Sun is one of the 100 billion stars it has in it. The Milky way is so big in size that it takes light about 100 thousand years to travel from end to end. More Topics: The n…
The Sun As we look up in the night sky we see stars from end to end. Our Sun is no more than a star. It is our proximity to the Sun which makes it so bright and large in size. The Sun was born about 5000 million years ago as a result of the contrac…
Jupiter the largest Planet Jupiter is largest made of liquids, gases and swirling clouds of hydrogen and hilum. These liquids and gases become denser and denser as we move towards the planet’s center. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar sys…
The ninth planet Pluto Till around 1929 the outermost planet known to man was Neptune. In 1915 the American astronomer Percival Lowell discovered that the movement of Uranus and Neptune was affected by something which axisted beyond Neptune. More …
The Seventh Planet Uranus Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in the year 1781. herschel built the largest telescope of that age to do so. Located at about 2890 million kilometres from the Sun, Uranus is the seventh planet in our solar syst…
Closest to the Sun Mercury Almost twice the size of Pluto and 4879 kilometres in diameter, Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun at a distance of only 57.9 million kilometres. It is only five percent of the Earth’s size and takes 58.65 days to …
Venus the Hotest Planet Next to Mercury, Venus is the hottest and the brightest planet in the Sun’s family. Venus has a diameter of 12,104 kilometers and is located 108 million kilometres from the Sun. It has a surface gravity of 0.90 as compar…
Mars the Red Planet Mars the fourth plane has a diameter of 6,794 kilometres and it orbits at a distance of 228 million kilometres from the sun. The surface gravity on Mars is 0.38 of the Earth’s gravity and the planet is about one-tenth the size…
Saturn and its Rings Saturn is the sixth planet in orderof revolution in the family of the Sun. It has a diametr of 1,20,536 kilometrs and is located in orbit about 1427 million kilometrs away from the Sun. saturn is about 95 times larger and ha…
The Sun and its Family The sun as we see it is a huge ball of very hot gas measuring about 1,380,000 kilometers in diameter. Dark spot can often be seen on the sun,s surface, these are known as sun spots and they come and go frequently. These spo…
Galaxy and Stars It is said that a very powerful explosion took place billions of years ago which resulted in the formation of the galaxies. Galaxies contain dust, gas and thousands of millions of stars. These galaxies are gradually moving away fr…
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah The bright star of the history of Pakistan is Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It was the will of ALLAH that the physically weakling son of Poonjah Jinnah would one day be the founder of Pakistan. He was born in Karachi on Dece…
Tolerance of the Holy Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) Every muslim knows that Hazrat Muhammad (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم). is the last prophet of ALLAH. ALLAH sent his message to humanity through him. Tolerance of the Holy Prophet (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) Roz…
A kind Deed the story of King of Afghanistan Sabuktagin was the king of Afghanistan . He was the chief of a small tribe. He was not a rich man and had only one horse. He used to spend most of his his time in hunting on the plains around the town …
The Mosque The mosque, also called Masjid is a place of worship for the Muslims. The Muslims gather here to say their prayers five times a day. All the Mosques are nearly alike. Related Topics: Teolerance of the Holy Prophet Muhammad PBUH Venus …
A Classic Turn 50 novel Shoot all the blue jays you want… but remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird’. When Harper Lee published her first and, as it turned out, only novel, all she expected was ‘a quick and merciful death at the hands of the re…
