Stars

Billions upon billions of stars lay in the universe waiting to be discovered and studied. The name of this study is Astronomy. Astronomy isn’t only the study of stars but everything in space. At night in Hatta when we look up at the stars our heads are full of questions like how far away the stars are and how the stars get there. Not only could we see stars and constellations like Orion and his belt, but we could also see planets such as Saturn and Mars. They both were huge bright red stars, and if you look closely at Saturn you can see a glimpse of it’s rings. When we were in Hatta, every night we would climb up a grassy hill, lay down and gaze at space until bed time. We each chose our own constellation, ours are Scorpio and Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a half horse half man whose life’s goal is to shoot the evil Scorpio because he killed Orion. Scorpio is a constellation of a scorpion. His brightest star, Antares is a red star located in his heart that is 230 times the size of the sun! Even though scientists know so much about astronomy there’s still a lot to learn about our universe.

by Gabriel and Nicholas K.