The starry skies
Definition:
The starry sky is the dark night sky filled with shining stars.
INTERESTING POINTS:
Stars look tiny, but they are actually HUGE burning balls of gas.
We can see only a small number of stars with our eyes; the rest are too far away.
Some stars are bigger than our Sun, and some are smaller.
Stars form patterns in the sky called constellations.
Light from stars takes years to reach us — we see them the way they were long ago!
The Milky Way is our home galaxy, filled with billions of stars.
MAIN POINTS:
The starry sky appears at night when the Sun is not shining on our side of Earth.
Stars are huge balls of hot, glowing gas far away in space.
They look small and twinkly because they are very far from us.
Stars form patterns called constellations in the night sky.
The Milky Way is the galaxy we live in, filled with billions of stars.
Fun Fact:
We see stars twinkle because Earth’s air bends their light like a wiggly mirror!