Our imaginary Milky Way.
Hi.
Today you are going to have to pretend really hard!
Look at today's cartoon and pretend that it is NOT some little bits of cut paper on a black background!
Instead IMAGINE that you are standing outside at night looking up at the starry sky!
(And I hope you live somewhere where you can see the starry night sky!!)
You will see a cloudy path of pale light going right across the sky and some other bright star and planets scattered around.
Pretty, huh?
That path of pale light is called the Milky Way and it is made up of LOTS of stars just like our SUN except VERY far away.
That pale path of light, the famous Milky Way is our very own GALAXY.
GALAXY
Isn't that a cool word?
Next Tuesday I will explain what our GALAXY is!
WOW! I can hardly wait!!
Bye,
Uncle Tom
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Hi there!
Glad you could be with me again today!
I have another question for you.
Look at the above cartoon I drew for today.
Is the boy bigger than the house?
(answers vary)
He sure LOOKS bigger, but maybe he is standing closer to the artist!
He could even be a skateboarding cartoon kid who lives in the house behind him!
There is also a cartoon SUN in the picture and a cartoon STAR.
Next question: Which is BIGGER--the SUN or the STAR?
In the cartoon drawing, the SUN is lots bigger-- BUT a STAR is MUCH farther away from us than our sun!
A STAR is SO FAR AWAY that it looks like a tiny sparkle of light in the night sky--but it could be MUCH bigger than our sun!
In fact, the tiny star you see at night COULD be a WHOLE LOT OF VERY DISTANT SUNS--so far away they just look like a single star!
Isn't that interesting?
See you tomorrow!
Uncle Tom
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Hi.
Here is a question for you.
Here is a picture I made for today's blog--it shows a "SUN" and a "STAR".
To make the picture more fun I gave the sun and the star faces.
Of course there are no faces on the sun in the sky or the stars you see at night!
NOW--Here's your question:
What is the difference between the sun and a star?
(You can see the sun in the daytime and a star only at night--and other possible answers...)
Here is a good answer:
The sun and a star are the same kind of thing!
The sun is much closer to our "mother" earth than any other star!
So it looks different to us.
But OUR SUN and the little stars you see at night are really the same kind of thing!
Isn't that interesting?
See you tomorrow!
Uncle Tom
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