Capstone Blog post 3: Site Visit

It was great!!! I loved it. I just did my site visit to the Jennifer Chalsty planetarium at the Liberty Science Center.  It was super cool. First, I went to see a show on the stars and solar system. In that show, all of the information that they showed was collected by telescopes.  So I got to see first hand what we have learned from telescope technology. I also learned about how scientists learn more about space and our universe using telescopes. I got to see the computers and projectors that ran the planetarium. I learned about telescopes and rovers and all the planets.

When I first arrived at the Liberty Science center, I went straight to the planetarium.  We were treated like rock stars and got special seats. It was so cool. Then after the first show, I had my interview.  The person I interviewed then took me to see all the projectors and computers that ran the planetarium. Even though my visit to the planetarium was so much fun, I learned a lot too.  For example, I learned how the telescopes took all these amazing pictures and then showed our universe to us. I learned about stars and what we can see with our eyes compared to telescopes. I also learned how scientists can improvise if our technology is not advanced enough to see. One example of this is how scientists connected a bunch of telescopes around the world to get a glance of a black hole.  They did this because they couldn’t make a single telescope that was big enough to see that well.

In summary, I got some good information on telescopes. Visiting the planetarium was an information mine, even though I couldn’t take any pictures for reference (they don’t allow photography in the planetarium). I learned lots of people agree with my thinking about telescopes, they are the best of the best for a wide range view of the cosmos.