This article was written by Bhargavi about her experience on the sky watching day.
“I love science. In science, I love physics. In physics, Astrophysics is very interesting and miracle too.
On 25th of February, I had been to FSMK office with my brother to see the moon and the planets with the help
of a telescope. In that program, a professor of Indian Institute of Astrophysics had come to give us
information about our universe. It was a very interesting session.
First he told us about light. Light travels very fast at about 3,00,000 km/sec. We can see everything in
this world only with the help of light. Light is made up of invisible particles called photons. Moon’s light
take approximately 4 sec to reach the earth and Sun’s light take approximately 8 min to reach the earth.
Universe was formed approximately 4 * 10^6 ago according to big bang theory. He told us also about
position of planets in our galaxy and about the constillations. He showed us some videos related to this.
After this session, we saw the surface of moon and the planets, Jupiter and Venus and their position with
the help of telescope.
This session was very useful to me. From this session, I was inspired to become an astronomer and know more
about more universe. I thank my brother who called me to such an interesting and educative program.”
