Listener questions: Pluto, Axolotls, and Teeth 🪐🦎🦷

Sleep Tight Science - A Bedtime Science Show For Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are going to answer more of your questions and a few fun facts. We will journey to the icy world of Pluto, meet the adorable underwater axolotl (ACK-suh-lot-ul), learn about the atmosphere, and discover what your teeth are really made of! And there is a really hard section too full of all kinds of chemical formulas! We hope you learn something as you drift off to sleep. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖 --- Support Us 👉 Join Premium for AD FREE listening and extra bedtime stories! 👉 Sleep Tight Premium is now available in Apple Podcasts! 🎉 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. 📢 Have an interesting science topic you would like to investigate? Send us an email at [email protected] , and we may feature it in an upcoming show. --- About Sleep Tight Science We’ve got bedtime down to a (Sleep Tight) Science! Sleep Tight Science is an engaging bedtime show that makes science accessible and enjoyable for the whole family. Snuggle in and drift off to sleep while learning about science topics submitted by listeners! Designed for curious young minds (but simple enough for grown-ups to understand), Sleep Tight Science uses big words to answer big questions that kids wonder about, like why do we feel icky sometimes and how do our legs help us move? Learn something new about the natural world while drifting off to dreamland. Have an interesting science question or a topic you’re curious about? Email us at [email protected], and it might just be the focus of an upcoming episode! Dedicated to enhancing the health and happiness of children, Sleep Tight Media helps families replace bedtime struggles with bedtime snuggles. -- Made in Canada 🇨🇦 Advertising provided by Starglow Media. Learn more about Starglow Media here

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0:00.0	You're listening to Sleeptight Science.
0:14.3	Did you know the average person makes about 10,000 gallons of spit in their lifetime?
0:23.3	What?
0:24.4	That's enough to fill a small swimming pool.
0:27.7	Yuck.
0:35.9	Hello, friends, and welcome back to Sleep Tight Science, a bedtime show that answers your questions about science.
0:45.3	In this episode, we will answer some of the questions you have sent in.
0:51.3	We read and love your emails, comments, reviews, and suggestions.
0:58.1	We can't answer all your questions directly, but today we will cover a whole range of different topics.
1:06.3	We hope you learn as much as we did. We just produced a listener questions episode.
1:14.1	However, we have been getting so many questions lately that we thought another episode was
1:19.8	in order.
1:21.7	Some of these questions have been submitted via comments or reviews, so we don't know exactly who they are from,
1:29.8	so we can't give them full credit.
1:35.7	Our first question comes from an online comment, and they wanted to know about Pluto, a planet
1:43.2	at the edge of our solar system.
1:47.0	Pluto lives way, way out in a cold space called the Kuiper Belt, about 5.9 billion kilometers
1:55.9	or 3.7 billion miles from the sun. That's so far that sunlight takes over five hours just to reach it.
2:07.6	And because it's so far away, it's one of the coldest places in the solar system,
2:13.6	with temperatures averaging a very cold minus 387 degrees Fahrenheit or minus 233 degrees Celsius.
2:25.3	That's cold enough to freeze your exposed skin instantly, just in case you were planning on visiting.
2:47.5	But even though Pluto is tiny, only about 2,300 kilometers or 1,400 miles wide, it has many interesting features.
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