Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. Together with Guernsey, Jersey forms the Channel Islands. The full name of Jersey is Bailiwick of Jersey, which includes the island of Jersey, the Minquiers, Écréhous, the Pierres... (read more)

The Big Bang is a theory that astronomers believe 13.7 billion years ago, a giant explosion created the universe in a fraction of a second. The universe expanded rapid from the size of an atom to a hot fireball with size bigger than galaxy in that Big... (read more)

A Nebula is a huge cloud of dust and gas in the space, which contains atoms of hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, graphite, water and many other elements to form stars and planets. When a dense region... (read more)

Asteroids are minor planets that circle the sun. Asteroids can be made of rocks, metals or the mixture of both. C-types (carbonaceous) are asteroids that made up of rock, and are the most common ones. They are usually dark coloured and difficult to spot.... (read more)

Comets travel from the outer reaches of the solar system to the sun. A comet is actually an icy lump that develops a shining head and two tails when it is warmed up by the sun. A solid nucleus of snow and dust inside the gas cloud makes up a comet's... (read more)

Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system. Jupiter, mainly made of hydrogen and helium, has a mass of 1.8986×1027 kg, which is 317 times Earth's mass. If you add the mass of all the other planets in the solar system, and double... (read more)

Mercury is only 57.9 million kilometers away from the Sun, which makes it the closet planet to it. However this does not make Mercury the hottest planet in the solar system. The average surface temperature of Mercury is about 167oC, where Venus,... (read more)

In the UK, the national minimum wage varies according to your age and if you are an apprentice. If you are 21 years old or over, the minmum wage is £5.93 per hour (correct at August 2011) . If you are 18-20 years old, the minimum wage is £4.92 per hour,... (read more)

Venus, also called the evening star, is the second closet planet to the sun, only 108.2 million km away from the sun. It takes Venus 224.7 days to orbit the sun. Venus is a very very hot planet, the temperature is over 460oC or 860oF.... (read more)