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Hello, it's all getting a bit chaotic down here. Maybe it's time we leave

Planet Earth for 30 minutes or so. Strap yourself in, it's a brand new fun kid

science weekly. Welcome along, my name's Dan. This is the show where we take a

look all around the universe to see the amazing wanderers, brilliant things

that are lurking through the solar system. Now this week it's the time of year

again where I want you to take a look outside and spot some butterflies. The big

butterfly count is back. We love to talk about this every year and you can hear

from Dr Zoe Randall about how important what you see actually is, how they use

your information and what you need to look out for. The big butterfly count's

different this year because we want more and more people to get involved to

help us find out how last year's really hot sticky drought weather affected our

butterflies. Also we'll take a trip to deep space high to look at how space

weather comes from the sun. The temperature here is over 5,000 degrees Celsius.

That's 50 times the temperature of boiling water. Much quicker to make a cup of tea

up here than a herb. Yeah, if you didn't mind your kettle vaporizing. And I've

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