Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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Abstract
We live in an amazing Universe. W At this very moment, we sit on a spinning ball of rock eight thousand miles across. This oversized boulder, our planet Earth, revolves around a yellow star at over one thousand miles per hour. This star, our Sun, is just one of billions in a vast spiral island of suns we call the Milky Way galaxy. Our seemingly huge star island floats among billions of other similar realms in a Universe almost fourteen billion years old in both space and time.
Feeling overwhelmed? Perhaps even a bit small and lost in all that vastness and information? Fear not, for as incredible, immense, and numerous as our Cosmos is, it is also a place that can be both appreciated and understood by curious individuals with their families at little cost and with high rewards.
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Larry Klaes
(2004)
"Astronomy for Your Whole Family,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 14:
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2, Article 4.
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