Excpiernces at the planetarium

With my 8th grade class we went to the natural history museum planetarium. We went to three different exhibits and they were each very interesting

The first exhibit we visited was the meteor room. The room had real meteors that were found in Greenland! people back then though that the earth meteors were gifts form gods and they showed messages. In the room I learned about the differences of Meteors and meteorites. I learned all about comets and how meteors really looked like. It was so amazing to see real meteors!! :)

The next exhibit we went to the rose center. We first saw a short movie about he creation of the big bang. We then went down a pathway and saw the timeline of the universe starting with the big bang and ending with humans. In between we learned about the creation of the milkway <9>, to the creation of out solar system <4.5> A really cool part of that exhibit was seeing how much you weighed on different planets and stars!

The last room we went to was the movie. we saw a movie in a theater were you look up and you see it. You learned all about he sun, the big bang, the planets, everything in astronomy really! it was very interesting and was a beautiful show. I was very interested to learn about stars, knowing almost nothing about them. but what intersted me the most is seeing what the earth looked liked before we came here.

On the trip i learned a lot. I learned the before we came the earth was a big pot of heat and meteors and comets crashing to it. I learned how the earth is perfect. not to far from the sun and not to close.I learned about my body, the sun. I never new the sun had micro Waves passing through ti making it vibrate. I also learned the the sun is 4.5 billion years old. It is also not a very big Star. there are bigger and hotter but tit is so important, only because it is important to us. But even after that helpful day i still have some questions about my body. what will happen after the explosion of the sun? Why is the sun the center of our universe whe nthere ar eplenty other stars just as big?

No one really discovered the sun. It has been known for since ancient time. But, nicholas copernicus, discovered that the earth was in the center of the universe, in 1543. He learned this by studying the planets, using math and physics. He then wrote a book about his theories before he died. This theory is still being used now and it has changed astronomy drastically since.