Question: our unit of inquiry is space what is your favourite thing about space
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discovery is my favourite thing about space to Mia and yes i have watched a bit of contact.
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cool DJ your own telescope
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Yeah, it’s great fun once I can actually focus on a planet and get over the mozzie bites from standing outside for hours. I showed my cousin Jupiter one time and he couldn’t believe there were things out there like that, and he’s nearly 40 years old lol. He must have skipped that part of school where you learn about the planets.
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blue11fudge
@blue11fudge Hello! What a great question to get as my first question! For me, the favourite thing about space is the possibility of discovery… There are so many things we don’t know yet – using science to ask and answer questions in space can help us learn some of those things. Plus, it’s a seriously big place – there’s a really, really good probability there are other life forms out there. Somewhere. ALIENS!!! (Have you seen Contact? Great movie!)
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The fact that it is so huge – there is so much out there waiting to be discovered. I have a telescope at home and even looking at the craters on the moon, or seeing the red spot on Jupiter and its moons, are amazing things that make me wonder how this has all come about.
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One of my favorite things about space is that we can see so many different things no matter where we look! We can see old stars and young stars and small galaxies and big galaxies, and when we compare them we learn about how each of these objects change over time. And that lets us learn things about how the universe works that we could never learn just from looking at things on Earth.
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We think of space as being “empty” but there is so much going on – clouds of hydrogen, radiation of all sorts, the solar “wind” (streams of particles blown out by the Sun).
And don’t forget gravity. Our own galaxy (the Milky Way) has enough gravity to stop our Sun from flying off into nowhere.
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@blue11fudge, for a scientist that doesn’t specialise is that area, my favourite thing about space is the possibility of wonders beyond our imagination. When I was growing up, I always daydreamed about what you could learn from space, what undiscovered object or lessons there were to find. I would love to be able to download all that @Kyler knows and has seen!
Some people fear the unknown, but as a scientist, the unknown makes me want to jump out into the darkness and see what there is to see.
What’s your favourite thing about space?
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