Exploring The Night Sky

I like to look up and explore the night sky and see all the bright stars. It’s so funny to think how far away they are, and they still shine so brightly. It’s very cool though, to see all the stars above us.

Hercules Globular Cluster

Eagle Nebula

The moon is so beautiful. It’s like a big flashlight shining down onto our property. Most of the time no matter how far we go it’s always there and following us. I think that is remarkable.

Earth's Moon

I like to examine all the pictures in the night sky- the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, Orion, the Six Sisters, and many others. I have taken the binoculars out during the night and saw a good view of the stars from the earth.

Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula

Flame circled in Red, Horsehead in Yellow

My favorite planet is Saturn. What I like about it is its rings made from dust and ice. Saturn has one hundred fifty moons and smaller moonlets. Imagine looking at that! Saturn’s rings are made up of lots of particles that extend in size from little dust grains to pieces as big as mountains. These are made from chunks of ice and rock, assumed to have come from asteroids, comets, or even moons that split apart before they reached the planet. Did you also know that Saturn is the flattest planet?

Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter

There are 9,096 stars visible to the naked eye in the whole entire sky. To see more, you have to use a telescope to find the stars fainter than your own eyes can see. Our binoculars can see far, but not as far as possible.

Mars

When I go outside in the dark to look at the sky, it’s just incredible. I think planets and stars and everything in the night sky above is wonderful. They’re all a part of Gods remarkable design.

Andromeda Galaxy

~Unique

(Subtitled pictures courtesy of Amanda Cox and Christian Truth Foundation)