The Dying Sun: The New Millennium Academy & Computer College

THE NEW MILLENNIUM ACADEMY & COMPUTER COLLEGE
THE DYING SUN

(Sir James Jeans)
Q.1: What do you know about the size of the stars?
Ans: There are a few stars in the universe, which are hardly bigger than the earth. Mostly
they are hundreds of thousands times larger than the earth.
Q.2: How many stars are there in the universe?
OR
What comparison has the writer drawn to describe the total number of stars in
the universe?
Ans: Total number of stars in the universe is probably something like the total number of
grains of sand on all the seashores of the world.
Q.3: Draw a comparison between the earth and the other stars known in the universe.
Ans: Some of the other stars are very big. They are so big that millions of earths can be
packed inside each.
Q.4: What is the size of a large star?
Ans: A large star is so big that it can contain millions and millions of earths in it.
Q.5: How do the stars travel in the universe?
Ans: Millions of stars are wandering about in space. A few form groups which journey in
company, but most of them travel alone.
Q.6: Does one star come anywhere near to another?
Ans: The universe is so immense that it is a very rare event indeed for one star to come
anywhere near to another. Mostly the stars travel alone.
Q.7: How is it that a star seldom finds another star near it?
Ans: There are millions of stars in the universe. They are wandering about in space. One
star keeps a distance of over a million miles from its nearest neighbour. So a star seldom
finds another anywhere near it.
Q.8: Which scale model has the writer used to describe the position of stars in the
universe?
Ans: The writer has used the scale model of ships on an empty ocean. One ship is at the
distance over a million miles from the other ship.
Q.9: Why do the sun and the moon raise tides on the earth?
Ans: The sun and the moon raise tides on the earth because of their attraction.
Q.10: Why were the tides produced on the sun different from the tides produced on
the earth?
Ans: The tides produced on the surface of the sun were far bigger than those on the earth. It
was so because of the bigness of the sun as well as of the other star.
Q.11: What happened when, according to sir James Jeans, a wandering star,
wandering through space, came near the sun?
OR
Describe the tidal wave produced on the surface of the sun?
Ans: Sir James Jeans says that a rare event took place when a star came near the sun. Just as
the sun and moon raise tides on the earth, so this star must have raised tides on the surface
of the sun. It must have become an immense tidal wave that formed a very high mountain.
As the other star came nearer and nearer, the mountain would rise higher and higher.
Q.12: What happened on the surface of the sun when the other star began to move
away again?
Ans: When the other star began to move away again, the mountain was torn to pieces and
threw off small parts of itself into space.
Q.13: What are the planets and how did they come into existence?
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Ans: The planets are the shattered and scattered pieces, which resulted from the break down
of the high mountain of tidal wave. These planets are great and small. Our earth is one of
them.
Q.14: Why is there no life on the stars?
OR
What are the requirements for the existence of life?
Ans: The stars are extremely hot-far too hot for life to exist on them. It needs suitable
physical conditions for its appearance, the most important of which is a temperature at
which substances can exist in a liquid state.
Q.15: Write a note on the beginning of life on the earth?
Ans: At first the planets including the earth were extremely hot. Gradually the earth became
cooler. The conditions became favourable for life. At first micro organisms were originated.
They could reproduce themselves before dying. As regards the start of life, it is not known
how, when or why this happened.
Q.16: What in your opinion should be the conditions necessary, for the kind of life we
know, to exist on other heavenly bodies? Do such conditions generally exist?
Ans: For life, certain physical conditions are essential. The other heavenly bodies are
extremely hot or otherwise terribly cold. So there is no question of life over there. Only the
earth is a suitable place for life because its temperature is neither too hot nor too cold.
Q.17: When did a star happen to come near the sun?
OR
When did the rare event take place?
Ans: Some two thousand million years ago, a star happened to come near the sun.
Q.18: What are the physical conditions (environment) of the planets now?
Ans: The planets gradually became cooler. Now they do not have their own heat. They get
the warmth from the radiation of the sun.
Q.19: How did the human race come into existence?
OR
How did the stream of life come on earth?
OR
How is Man different from the other creatures?
Ans: At first, the humble beginnings of the micro organisms appeared on the earth. Then
came a stream of life, which grew ever more and more complex. Ultimately, the human
beings were produced who have ambitions, sense of beauty and religion.
Q.20: What are the qualities of human beings?
Ans: Human beings have feelings, ambitions, sense of beauty and religion.
Q.21: What is our first feeling when we try to discover the nature and purpose of the
universe?
Ans: According to the writer, when we try to discover the nature and the purpose of the
universe our first feeling is fear.
Q.22: Why is our earth frightening?
Ans: Our earth is frightening because of extreme loneliness, extreme littleness of our home,
long stretches of time and space, unimaginable distances between stars, unthinkable
vastness of the universe and because of no signs of life on any other planet.
Q.23: Why does the whole human history look insignificant in comparison with the
history of the universe?
Ans: The history of human life on earth is very brief. When it is compared with the history
of the universe, it looks quite ordinary.
Q.24: What is the size of the earth?
Ans: The size of the earth is millionth part of a grain of sand.

Q.25: How many planetary systems are present in the universe?

Ans: It has been known through calculation that there are only few planetary systems in
space.
Q.26: What is the collection of fires?
Ans: The stars are extremely hot. We may think of them as a collection of fires scattered
through space, providing warmth in surroundings.
Q.27: What is the lowest temperature in space?
Ans: In the surroundings of the stars, the temperature is at most four degrees above absolute
zero, that is, 484 degrees of frost on the Fahrenheit scale. Beyond the Milky Way it is colder
still. Away from the stars, there is cold of hundreds of degrees of frost.
Q.28: What is the maximum temperature in space?
Ans: Close up to the stars there is a temperature of thousands of degrees, at which all solids
melt and all liquids boil.
Q.29: Where can life exit?
OR
What are the conditions necessary for life?
Ans: Life can exit only in a narrow belt, which is called a temperature belt. These belts are
surrounding the fires of the stars. The temperature there is neither too hot nor too cold.
Q.30: What may happen outside and inside the narrow belts?
Ans: Outside these belts, life would be frozen. Inside them it would be burnt up.
Q.31: Why is life not possible anywhere else?
Ans: The earth is the only planet that is at the right distance from a star like the sun. Other
planets are either too far away or too close to the sun. So life cannot be possible anywhere
else.
Q32: What is the moderate temperature?
Ans: The moderate temperature is the temperature that is neither too hot nor too cold.
Q.33: What is the total size of the temperature belts where life can exist? OR
What is the percentage of the temperature (narrow) belts in space?
Ans: If all the temperature belts within which life is possible are added, they make up less
than a thousand million millionth part of the whole of space.
Q.34: How many stars have a planet?
OR
Out of how many stars life is possible?
Ans: Probably only one star in 100,000 has a planet going round it at the right distance for
life to be possible on it.
Q.35: Why does life not seem to have any part in the plan of the universe?
Ans: Conditions in the universe are not favourable for life. Stars are very hot and space is
very cold. Planets are few in number. So life does not seem to have any part in the scheme
of the universe.
Q.36: Why is there little planetary system in the universe?
Ans: Our planetary system is the result of the encounter of another star with the sun. Such
encounters are very, very rare in the universe. This is why planetary systems are few in
number.
Q37: How can we know the littleness of our earth?
Ans: The littleness of the earth can be judged from the bigness of the stars.
Q.38: How hot were the stars when they fell into space?
Ans: The stars, when fell into the space, were hot like fireballs. They were extremely hot.
Q.39: Is it usual that two stars can clash?

Ans: No, the clash of the two stars is not usual because of immense distances. It is very
rare.

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THE DYING SUN

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Q.25: How many planetary systems are present in the universe?

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