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SUBSCRIBE: www.youtube.com/user/PonkeyBox Check out our other awesome content at: www.ponkeybox.com Travel with PonkeyBox across time and space, to the furthest reaches of the galaxy! For budding scientists and aspiring astronauts, this is an awe-inspiring journey through the solar system to learn our intergalactic ABCs. Kids and their Bigs can explore outer space concepts and vocabulary in this alphabetic run down, designed to support reading development and literacy. The alphabet: ASTRONAUT - a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft. The first human in space was Soviet Yuri Gagarin. BLACK HOLE - a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out. Think of it as a hoover which uses gravity to suck up all the space debris. CRATER - a large bowl-shaped cavity, caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite. The crater shown in Space Alphabet is found on Mars! DEEP SPACE - another term for outer space, which is usually defined as being quite far away from our own Earth. EARTH - the planet we live on! Otherwise known as The World, The Blue Planet or The Blue Marble, Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets. FLOATING - astronauts and other objects appear to float in space because they are actually in free fall inside a vacuum. GALAXY - the word galaxy comes from the Greek galaxias (literally "milky") a reference to our own galaxy the Milky Way, which contains our Solar System. HALLEY'S COMET - first noted by the Chinese in 240 BC, this 'dirty snowball' is a "periodic" comet and returns to Earth's vicinity every 75 years - it is projected to return in 2061. ISS - the International Space Station is the biggest object ever flown in space. It travels around the Earth at an average speed of 27,700 km/h, completing 16 orbits per day. JUPITER - the largest planet, Jupiter has a volume equal to more than 1,000 Earths. The fifth planet from the Sun is called a gas giant because it has no solid surface. Powerful storms such as the centuries-old Great Red Spot travel in bands across Jupiter. KUIPER BELT - a doughnut-shaped ring made up of icy bodies and a trillion comets, extending just beyond the orbit of Neptune and surrounding our Sun. The Kuiper Belt was probably the birthplace of Halley's Comet. LIGHT SPEED - the speed at which light travels (about 300,000 kilometers per second). Nothing travels faster than light. MOON - is 4.5 billion years old. NEPTUNE - wind on Neptune travels so fast, it breaks the sound barrier. ORBIT (ADVANCED SHUTTLE) - an orbit is the path of an object around a particular point in space, for example the path the Moon takes around the Earth. PLUTO - used to be the smallest and furthest planet from the Sun, but in 2006 it was demoted to a dwarf planet. QUASAR - the furthest and brightest objects away from our galaxy that can be seen, although they appear as faint red stars to us as they're so far away. ROCKET - a vehicle propelled by rocket engines, designed to travel through space. SATURN - diamonds as big as Kim Kardashians's engagement ring fall like rain on Saturn. TELESCOPE (HUBBLE) - a large telescope that faces toward space and takes beautiful pictures of planets, stars and galaxies., Hubble is the length of a large school bus and weighs as much as two adult elephants. URANUS - the seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus is a giant world and the third largest planet in our Solar System. 64 Earths would fit inside it and it has 27 moons! VENUS - has volcanoes, mountains and sand, and is considered Earth's twin. However, its surface temperature is hot enough to cook a meal in minutes. WORMHOLE - a "shortcut" from one point in the universe to another, the name comes from the analogy that the universe is the skin of an apple, and if a worm is travelling over its surface, the distance from one side of the apple to the other is equal to half the apple's circumference. But if the worm burrows a hole directly through the apple, the distance it has to travel is considerably less. X-RAY - pulsars emit beams of radiation that sweep through Earth's line of sight, like a lighthouse. YELLOW DWARF (SUN) - has a core temperature of 13600000 degrees Celsius! ZENITH - the point in the sky or celestial sphere directly above an observer. Chords: D Minor, C, F, B Minor Arranged and performed by Paul & Lisa Hupfield. Copyright 2013 Paul & Lisa Hupfield/PonkeyBox: All rights reserved. Hey Bigs! For fun, Movie Monkey-related tees, check out Plissken Tees designs at http://www.cafepress.com/plisskentees With special thanks to these 'out of this world' folks: ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble ESO (European Southern Observatory) M. Kornmesser L. L. Christensen NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) AURA (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy NSF (National Science Foundation T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage)