We were just starting out when you could clearly see the sky and take the sky at night. For urban dwellers, this is a profound revelation, as if we have found aliens living among us. Most of us do not see the bright light in the clear night sky when there are no city lights.
Surely we all love the improved feeling of reading the sky using telescopes of various sizes and telescopes. But I bet you may remember as a child that for the first time you see a fully formed night sky with amazing clusters of stars, meters, and comet passing through as many dots as you can count.
The best way to experience the miracle of that moment is to leave the world with your child or who has never had this experience and be present at that moment when he looked up and uttered only a powerful word that could summarize the feelings they had there. They looked at that beautiful sky. That word says - "Wow".
Perhaps the most astonishing truth about what a child looks like, and the fact that it is very difficult to understand the magnitude of what is beyond him and what he stands for. The very fact that almost every dot in the sky is another star or celestial body on Earth itself, not two or ten times but hundreds of thousands of elements, could be a cool breeze blowing in it. Children. Children have enough trouble imagining the size of the earth itself, not to mention the big thing like outer space.
But when it comes to the stars, we are much better off if we fall into the deep and deep levels of fear we see in the night sky. Some amazing facts about what children are looking at can add to the bumps they already have as they look at the sky. Facts like ...
* Our sun is just one of many galaxies in our Milky Way galaxy with over 100 billion stars or more. Show them that 100 billion is 100,000,000,000, and you will see the jaw.
* The Milky Way was just one of billions of galaxies, each containing billions of stars. In fact, the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies.
* If you wanted to drive across the Milky Way, it would take you 100,000 years. But you can't get there if you drive the speed limit. You have to drive five trillion, eight hundred million miles a year to cross that speed.
* Scientists estimate that the Milky Way is 14 billion years old.
These fascinating little things must have had a profound effect on the universe and on the existence of other planets or on the existence of other planets. Would you challenge your children to calculate how many stars there are in the Milky Way galaxy and that if one of them were not as powerful as the earth, what would life be like? I think you will see real joy when they try to use those numbers.
Such a conversation can be fun, exciting, and full of questions. Don’t be quick to close their minds, as this is the birth of a lifelong love of the stars they face. And if you were there for the first time when they saw the sky at night, you would probably feel very special as a child. And it may start a new interest in astronomy with you.
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