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Unit 11 News III: Space Part 1 Warming up A: 8,000 miles 93 million miles 3651/4 days Size: 864,000 miles, 1 million times Temperature: —6,000 ℃ (11,000 ℉) 10 million ℃ Energy producing process: thermonuclear processes Difference between a star and a planet: gives out light reflects the rays of the sun Tapescript The earth is a planet just under 8,000 miles in diameter, moving around the Sun at a distance of 93,000,000 miles, and completing one circuit in 3651/4 days. The Sun itself is a star. It is by no means distinguished, and modern astronomers class it as a “Yellow Dwarf (黄矮星)”; it seems splendid to us only because it is relatively so near. We know of stars which are at least a million times more luminous(发光的，明亮的) than the Sun, and yet are so far away that telescopes are needed to see them at all. The stars visible at night-time are immensely distant, which is why they appear only as tiny points of light. Many of them may well have planet-systems of their own. All the same, we must not be contemptuous of the Sun. It may not be a celestial (天上的) searchlight (探照灯), but neither is it a glowworm: it is normal in every way, and cosmically (按照宇宙规则的) it is far more important than our own insignificant world. Its diameter is 864,000 miles so that it could contain more than a million globes (行星) the size of the Earth; even at its surface, the temperature is around 6,000℃ (11,000 ℉), and in the solar “power-house”, deep inside, the temperature must rise to well over ten million degrees. The Sun is gaseous(气态的), and is not burning in the ordinary sense of the world, since it produces its energy by means of thermonuclear (热核的) processes near its core. The essential difference between a star and a planet is that a star is a sun in its own right(凭本身的力量), whereas a planet shines only because it reflects the ray of our own particular Sun. If we could observe from the surface of another world—Mars(火星), for instance—the Earth to