{"id":33402,"date":"2015-09-28T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=33402"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:01:08","slug":"how-to-start-stargazing-with-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ro\/journal\/how-to-start-stargazing-with-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start Stargazing With Your Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you want to raise a kid with a scientific mind and an appreciation for the natural world, look no further than as far as you can look. Space is lousy with gorgeous spectacles, mind boggling mysteries, and the kinds of discoveries that inspire humanity to create things like the International Space Station and\u00a0Wall-E<\/em>.<\/p>\n

„Kids are born with a natural affinity to the night sky,” says Jason Kalirai, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which you might have heard of because it’s responsible for little projects like Hubble Telescope and the\u00a0James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>. The JWST is what Kalirai works on, and it will be the most powerful telescope ever built when it’s unveiled in the coming years. That’s not what makes Kalirai an expert on kids and the night sky, though; his 6-year-old twin girls and baby boy are responsible for that.<\/p>\n

The girls have been stargazing with him since they were 3 and already understand „how the atoms and heavy materials that we’re made out of were created in stars.” His advice might not turn your own kids into mini-Neil deGrasse Tysons, but it should get them into checking out the night sky with you.<\/p>\n

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