Stars and Galaxies for Kids
BeginnerSeven episodes for children aged 6 to 8, hosted by Lupe the dog, and the direct sequel to his Solar System course: there we visited the planets one by one and came home, here we leave the neighbourhood for good. The course runs on a ladder with seven steps, drawn whole in episode one and rebuilt whole in episode seven, with a warning the child hears out loud: each step is much, much bigger than the one before. It opens with the thing a child can check from her own window that same night — what shivers is a star, what stays still is a planet, because a star's light gets here as a thin thread and the moving air jumbles it. Then the Sun, the only star anybody sees up close, with the one safety rule of the course written out in full. Then the other stars, and the fact that runs backwards from the kitchen tap: a bluish star is the hottest, an orange one the coldest. Then the constellations, which are not hanging in the sky but living in our heads, because the stars in a picture are not neighbours at all. Then the nebulae, where the recipe is gather, squeeze, heat, light up, and where the course admits that the pretty colours in the photos were chosen. And it closes in the Milky Way and beyond it, on a tiny piece of sky where almost every dot is a whole galaxy.
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See allWhat this course refuses to say
No kilometres, no degrees, no age of the universe
The black hole does not suck everything in, and the photo is from another galaxy
Two corrections in one scene, and both fit into a single sentence
A constellation is not a neighbourhood, and that is the lesson of episode four
The stars in one picture are at wildly different distances
The colour in nebula photos is a choice, and the course says so to your face
Hiding it would build the belief that the sky is pink and green
