The Night Sky
No matter how advanced it is in its complexity as an amateur astronomer, there is always a critical time for all returns. This is the first time we could well see the cosmos and in the night sky. For the residents it is a revelation, as far as if we discover aliens living among us. Most of us have no idea scattered from the large picture of the lights in a clear night sky when there are no city lights to interfere with vision. Of course, we all love the best experience of scanning the sky with binoculars and sizes and the power of telescopes. But I bet I can as a child I saw the sky seems clearly remember all the constellations incredible feet, and comets that move and a statement of points of light too much to tell the story. The best way, the miracle of this moment is again to leave the country, with a child on your own or someone who has never had this experience and be there when the eyes and say that this word can very powerfully to their feelings take is to see this beautiful sky. That is great… Probably the extraordinary fact that the child, if he makes it more difficult for them, the enormity of what is going on and understand what it is displayed.
The fact that almost surely, almost all points in the sky a star or other celestial body that is much larger than the earth itself, not twice or ten times, but by factors of hundreds and thousands of people, an idea is blowing in spirit children. Children have enough trouble even imagine the size of Earth, slightly less in a region as large as in space.
* Our sun is part of a large galaxy called the Milky Way, which contains a hundred billion stars or more like it. Show them that one hundred billion and 100 billion you have a few pines security.
* The milk was one of tens of billions of galaxies each with billions of stars in them. In fact, the Milky Way is one of the smaller galaxies.
* If you should go through the Milky Way do 100,000 years. But you can not drive the speed limit. You have to drive five hundred million 8000000000000 miles per year in this fast.
* Scientists estimate that the Milky Way is 14000000000 years.
These little fun facts have a lively discussion on the origin of the universe and the possibility of space travel, or whether there is life on other planets. You can calculate children challenge if all the stars in the Milky Way support for nine planets, and if one of them was like the earth is habitable, what are the chances that life could exist in them? I think we see real emotion when you run the numbers. This debate can be fun, exciting and full of questions. Do not be too quick to close their imagination, it is the birth of a lifelong love of astronomy who know. And if you were there the first moment when they saw the night sky, you can experience your own great moment when you were a child. And it’s a whole new excitement would start on astronomy at home.