Monday, February 29, 2016

The Planetarium

Today at the Planetarium I learned lots of cool facts like:
  • The highest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is on Mars
  • You will never see the scorpion and Orion in the sky at the same time
  • The big dipper and the little dipper aren’t actual constellations, they are asterisms
  • Orion is a winter constellation
  • Scorpius is a summer constellation
  • Without the light pollution in St. Louis we would be able to see the stars way better
  • Most of the constellations were made up by the Greeks