When television was young, there was a popular program based on the famous character of Superman's fairy tale. The opening of the exhibition featured the familiar saying, “Look up in the sky". It's a bird. The plane. You are Superman! "The way Superman has been in our culture and the fascination with the universe and all cosmic objects underscores the fact that there is a deep curiosity in all people about nature and astronomy, though most people would not know what they call astronomy.
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences. When archaeologists excavated ancient civilizations, even back in caves, they often found artifacts that showed an unstoppable interest in the stars. To this day, you can easily find a stimulating discussion on the subject “Is there an intelligent life on other planets?”
Many have tried to explain how humans appear to be busy in space because of memories of the past or as part of an eternity. Whatever the cause, people of all ages and nationalities are keenly interested in knowing more about our little planet.
It is truly amazing because the real behavior of a zealous astronomer is not a matter of supreme entertainment. You will never see the film "Raiders of the Lost Arc" or "Jurassic Park" about the astronomer. The delight of science lovers is to spend the night observing the atmosphere with a powerful microscope. But that fact does not seem to discourage tens of thousands of people from studying astronomy each year and the great worldwide interest in stars, planets, and the universe.
There may be no other human interest in the world that does so much to create international borders and global hatred. Outside the Olympic movement, international cooperation to achieve greater progress in humanity in space seems to continue uninterrupted, even when nations involved in such activities are at war almost on the face of the earth. It is strange to see Russian, American and other astronomers working together as brothers in space even though their countries are busy pointing the arrows backwards. It probably makes you think we should put more energy and money into the space system, not less because it seems more obligatory to end conflict than to create it.
Why is astronomy so fascinating even though it has no dinosaurs, reptiles or any real danger to many who are overly concerned about discipline? It may return to the basic wood that all humans have in their natural environment and this great mysterious object when it is called a place. Perhaps it goes back to that old saying at the beginning of Star Trek that space is "the final frontier".
But we all share that feeling of happiness every time we pull out our telescopes and look directly at the universe above us. We look forward to the dawn of time. And because of the news of the speed of light which means that many of the bright stars are actually light to those stars that began their journey to us thousands of years ago, we actually look back to the past every time we direct our eyes in the sky.
But we need not worry that we will reach the finish line and that our curiosity will be satisfied. There will always be more to discover and learn in the astronomy world, and man's curiosity about astronomy is also unlimited.
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