Begin Your Stargazing Adventure

Perhaps a budding scientist in your home is ready to make observations, ask questions, and discover patterns. Let them get started with the ancient past time of stargazing. To begin, just go outside on a clear night and look around for a long time. Consider keeping a notebook or sketch journal. Look for patterns. Describe how things change throughout the night. Imagine yourself as one of your ancient ancestors without the luxury of libraries or the internet. Try to make sense of what you are seeing. Make some predictions about what the night sky will look like tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. Write down these predictions so that you can test them later. You are on your way to formulating a hypothesis of the nature of the sky. You are DOING science!

Now that you have experienced some of the science we call astronomy, get more involved with these cool tools for finding constellations and other celestial objects.

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