Science Museum Create a Night Sky - Science Museum
Twinkle, twinkle, loads of stars! Night sky projection kit. When you build the kit you turn your roo
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| Twinkle, twinkle, loads of stars! Night sky projection kit. When you build the kit you turn your room into a planetarium and look at the stars. Humans have looked up at the night sky throughout history. For a long time, people imagined that the stars were put there for us to look at on the inside of a big ball (with us at the centre). As more accurate observations were made of how stars and planets moved, people realised that it was all a bit more complicated than that. Nicholaus Copernicus, from Poland, published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, to share his big new ideas; the distance from the Earh to the Sun is tiny compared to the distance to the stars; the Earth, like the planets, revolves around the Sun. Today, Copernicus is regarded by many as the father of all modern astronomy. Contents: Night sky domes of Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Lamp, Detailed instructions including star charts of both Hemispheres. 4 x AA batteries required, not included. 8 years |
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