No matter how much you progress in your development as an amateur astronomer, there is always one important moment we all return to. It was our first time out when you could clearly see the sky and took the night sky. For urban dwellers, this is a profound revelation, as if we have found aliens living among us. Most of us are not aware of the huge panorama of lights in the clear night sky when there are no city lights.
Certainly we all love the advanced knowledge of reading the sky using telescopes of various sizes and telescopes. But I bet you can remember as a child that for the first time you see a bright night sky with amazing constellations, meters and a comet that moves and reveals light spots far away from many you can count.
The best way to repeat the miracle of that moment is to get out of the world with your child, or you have never had this experience and been there at that moment when he looked up and said that very powerful word. Only one could summarize their feelings as they gazed at the beautiful sky. That word says - "Wow".
It is probably the most astonishing truth about what a child looks at, and 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 twice or ten times but with hundreds and thousands of elements, can be a cool breeze in it. Children. Children find it difficult to determine the size of the universe itself, not to mention something as unique as the outer space.
But when it comes to astronomy, we do so much better when we fall into the deep and deep levels of fear that 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 called the Milky Way, with its 100 billion or more stars. 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 facts must have had a profound effect on the cosmos and the existence of other planets or the existence of other planets. Would you challenge your children to calculate that if all the stars in the Milky Way were to support nine planets and that if one of them were not as centered on the earth, how much more would that be? 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 that night sky, you would probably feel very special when you were a child. And it may also start a new interest in astronomy and you.
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