THE DYING SUN

The Dying Sun

Question No. 1:    How is it that star seldom finds another star near it?

Ans:    A star seldom finds another star near it because there is a distance of millions of miles between the two stars. Moreover, space is immensely vast and each star is bound to travel in its own orbit.

Question No. 2:    What happened when, according to Sir James Jeans, a wandering star, wandering through space came near the sun?

Ans:     When a wandering star came near the sun, it raised tides on the surface of the sun. These tides formed a high mountain on the surface of the sun that we can hardly imagine.

Question No. 3:    What happened when the wandering star came nearer and nearer?

Ans:     When the wandering star came nearer and nearer the sun, the mountain on the surface of the sun rose higher and higher and was, finally, torn into pieces.

Question No. 4:    What are planets and how did they come into existence?

Ans:     The planets are the broken parts of the sun. They came into existence due to tidal pull caused by some star on the surface of the sun.

Question No. 5:    Why is there no life on the stars?

Ans:     There is no life on the stars because the stars are balls of fire and they have intense heat. Therefore, the stars are  too hot for life to exist on them.

 Question No. 6:   Write a note on the beginning of life on earth?

Ans:     When the earth gradually became cooler and cooler. Life started in very simple organisms which had ability to reproduce themselves before dying. In the end, it produced the most complicated organisms like man who has feelings and ambitions.

Question No. 7:    Why is the universe so frightening?

Ans:     The universe is so frightening because of immense stretches of time, extreme loneliness and absence of life on other planets.

Question No. 8:    What should be the conditions necessary, for the kind of life we know to exist on other heavenly bodies? Do such conditions generally exist?

Ans:     Life can exist only in some suitable physical condition like moderate temperature, air and water. Such conditions do not exist on other heavenly bodies except the earth. Therefore, there is no life on other heavenly bodies.

Question No. 9:    How do the stars travel in the universe?

Ans:     The stars travel in the universe either in groups or mostly they travel alone. They travel at vast distance from one another

Question No. 10:   What are the temperature belts?

Ans:     The temperature belts are zones that surround each hot star at a certain distance. The temperature there is neither too hot nor too cold. Life can exist on such temperature belts.
 

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Question No. 1: How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it?

Space is very vast. The distance between two stars is millions of miles. That is why a star seldom finds another star near it.

Question No. 2: What happened when a wandering star came near the Sun?

The star raised huge tides on the surface of the Sun and formed a big mountain.

Question No. 3: What happened when the wandering star came nearer and nearer the Sun?

As the wandering star came nearer and nearer, the mountain on the surface of the Sun rose higher and higher.

Question No. 4: What are planets? How they came into existence?

The tidal pull of the wandering star broke away the mountain of the Sun into pieces. These broken pieces are called planets.

Question No. 5: Why is there no life on the stars?

Both the Sun and the stars are so hot that life cannot exist on them.

Question No. 6: Write a note on beginning of life on Earth.

After the passage of time, Earth gave birth to life. In the beginning, simple organisms were born. Gradually they developed into human beings.

Question No. 7: Why is universe frightening?

The universe is frightening because of its huge distances, our Earth is very small and absence of life on any other place.

Question No. 8: In what conditions can life exist? Do such conditions generally exist?

Life can exist only in a temperature at which things can exist in a liquid state. Such conditions are available on the Earth only.