To the Sky, From the Earth...

I think I already told you guys that I'm, like, totally into astro-stuff. Basically, I think everything beyond us is insaney epic. So, I would like to inform you of something that would be considered cool by someone who isn't necessarily into that kind of thing.

I have a brother. His name is Eric. He is very cute and on Saturday my wittle baby bruver turned 10!!! (I'm still in shock.) He wanted to go to NYC and to the museum of Natural History.

Well, they have these soecial exhibits, like any other museum and my brother wanted to go into this one called Journey to the Stars.

Ah-frickin'-mazing. It was in the Hayden Planetarium and it was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. (In case you kids were wondering where she went after those doughnut commercials.)

First of all, the quality was amazing. If I wasn't breathing I could've believed that I was truly in space.

Here's what I learned (Or an extension of what I already knew):

-We depend on the sun because it is the closest star.
-In space there a bunch of things called dwarves. White, brown...
-The sun will die out in about 4 billion years, but by then we will have evolved in ways that we can only imagine now, or have already left planet Earth.
-Supernovas are the explosions of giant stars.
-The sun is actually a yellow star, one of medium heat, rather than a red one (lowest heat) or a blue one (highest amount of heat)
-The sun has about four layers. At the very center there are a bunch of atoms that move thousands of miles an hour and smash into each other CONSTANTLY and that's how the sun has continuous energy.
-Magnetic waves from the sun's radiation can move at 1 million miles an hour.

Productive day. Whoopi also went over the planets and when she didn't say Pluto there was a murmur of "Poor Pluto" throughout. :(

You still gotta learn stuff in the summer.