Stardome Trip

Yesterday on Thursday night from 5:30 to 7:45, we went to the Stardome to learn about Space. When we went inside Stardome, a guider named Tobias led us into a big room. We sat on seats which we could lye back on. Tobias introduced himself to us. When we looked up, we could see the sky. It was beautiful and looked real. When we looked to the left we could see the sun. It was really small compared to the sky and clouds. It was really cool, because the sky from daytime turned into night time, where all the stars were seen.

 Tobias taught us about the constellations that different countries from around the world saw. One of the constellations we saw was the scorpion. If we found a bright orange star and we connected it to other stars that Tobais showed us, we could see the scorpion. Tobias added a image of the scorpion to show it to the other people who couldn't see the scorpion. We also looked at the hook and Sagittarius constellations. The special hook was from Maui.

After we learnt about the constellations, we learnt about Jupiter and Saturn. Tobais zoomed into Jupiter and Saturn. The planets were so big, the light flashed on my face. I learnt that Jupiter has a total of 96 or 98 moons. I also learnt that Saturn's ring was actually made out of tiny bits of ice and dust.

After we learnt about the constellations and the planets, we went outside of the room and looked at different information about space. Something I saw was Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik 1 Lego figures. My group in reading were reading about Yuri Gagarin and Sputnik 1. Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut to orbit Earth in vostok 1. Sputnik 1 was the first satellite to launch into space. There was really cool entertainments, like Angry birds, pulling the lever to connecting parts of a rocket together and weighing yourself to see your weight on different planets. I enjoyed experiencing my trip to Stardome.