--- title: Space — a course of Mova's primary school, with trees and pragmatics description: The solar system and beyond: the Sun, how the planets were born, each planet in turn, the Moon with its phases, eclipses and tides, asteroids, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, comets, stars, galaxies and the people who went to space. 32 lessons, 514 sentences with trees and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / Space # Space The solar system and beyond: the Sun, how the planets were born, each planet in turn, the Moon with its phases, eclipses and tides, asteroids, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, comets, stars, galaxies and the people who went to space. The space course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 514 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (Mova corpus 0.4). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/1-the-sun-our-star/) — The Sun, our star — 16 sentences · The Sun is a star, the same kind of thing as the tiny dots you see at night, only so close that it fills our… - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/2-how-the-solar-system-was-born/) — How the Solar System was born — 14 sentences · About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a huge, cold cloud of gas and dust called th… - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/3-mercury/) — Mercury — 17 sentences · Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, a grey, cratered ball only a little bigger than o… - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/4-venus/) — Venus — 16 sentences · Venus is almost exactly the size of the Earth and is our nearest planet, so it is called Earth's twin, but i… - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/5-the-earth-as-a-planet/) — The Earth as a planet — 15 sentences · Our Earth is the third planet from the Sun, a rocky ball like Mercury, Venus and Mars, but the biggest of th… - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/6-the-moon/) — The Moon — 17 sentences · The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres a… - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/7-phases-eclipses-and-tides/) — Phases, eclipses and tides — 17 sentences · The Sun always lights half of the Moon, like a lamp lighting half of a ball; as the Moon goes round us we se… - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/) — Mars — 17 sentences · Mars, the fourth planet, further from the Sun than the Earth, is the red planet, and it is red for the same… - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/) — Asteroids and the asteroid belt — 17 sentences · Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets formed, lumps of rock and metal from pebble… - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/10-jupiter/) — Jupiter — 18 sentences · Jupiter is the king of the planets: about 11 Earths would fit across it, and it is more than twice as heavy… - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/11-jupiters-moons/) — Jupiter's moons — 16 sentences · Jupiter is like a king with a huge court: more than 90 moons go round it, and telescopes keep finding new ti… - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/12-saturn-and-its-rings/) — Saturn and its rings — 18 sentences · Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nine times wider than the Earth, and so lig… - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/13-saturns-moons/) — Saturn's moons — 15 sentences · Saturn holds the record for moons: more than 270 are known, most of them small lumps, and new ones are still… - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/14-uranus-and-neptune/) — Uranus and Neptune — 14 sentences · Uranus and Neptune are the ice giants: under their hydrogen and helium air they are mostly water, ammonia an… - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/15-pluto-the-kuiper-belt-the-oort-cloud-and-comets/) — Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets — 16 sentences · Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and Pluto is one of the biggest of them, whi… - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/16-meteors-meteorites-and-shooting-stars/) — Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars — 18 sentences · A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, rus… - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/17-stars-what-they-are/) — Stars: what they are — 15 sentences · The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and bright only because it is about 270,000 times… - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/18-how-stars-live/) — How stars live — 16 sentences · Stars are born inside huge, cold clouds of gas and dust called nebulae: a clump collapses under its own grav… - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/19-how-stars-die/) — How stars die — 15 sentences · When a star like the Sun runs short of hydrogen in its core, it swells into a red giant hundreds of times wi… - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/20-constellations-and-the-night-sky-in-winter-and-spring/) — Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring — 15 sentences · A constellation is an area of sky with an agreed pattern of stars, like a county on a map of the sky: astron… - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/) — The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky — 12 sentences · The sky changes with the seasons, because as Earth goes round the Sun our night side faces a different part… - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/22-distances-and-light-years/) — Distances and light years — 14 sentences · Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the f… - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/23-the-milky-way/) — The Milky Way — 14 sentences · The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a giant spinning disc called the Milky Way… - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/) — Galaxies and the Big Bang — 15 sentences · Just a hundred years ago many astronomers thought our Milky Way was the whole universe, until Edwin Hubble s… - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/25-black-holes/) — Black holes — 19 sentences · A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a huge amount of mass squeezed into a tiny… - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/26-exoplanets-and-the-search-for-life/) — Exoplanets and the search for life — 16 sentences · An exoplanet is a planet going round a star other than our Sun, and we now know thousands of them. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/) — Telescopes and light — 18 sentences · A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint thin… - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/28-how-we-know-measuring-the-sky/) — How we know: measuring the sky — 17 sentences · Nobody has flown to a star with a tape measure, yet we know how far stars are and what they are made of: ast… - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/29-the-history-of-space-exploration/) — The history of space exploration — 15 sentences · For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 years we have sent machines, animals and pe… - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/30-what-comes-next-the-moon-mars-and-beyond/) — What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond — 16 sentences · After fifty years away, people are heading back towards the Moon: it was reported that in April 2026 NASA's… - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/31-olympiad-planet-puzzles/) — Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ — 19 sentences · This closing block mixes the whole Solar System into puzzles: each one needs two facts from different lesson… - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/32-olympiad-stars-light-and-space-history/) — Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ — 17 sentences · The second olympiad lesson leaves the planets for the stars, starlight and the people who explored space: ea… - ← previous: [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) - next →: [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/) - ↑ back to [the school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/)