Volume : 2, Issue : 8, AUG 2016

ASTRONOMY LIKE THE FIRST CONTACT WITH SCIENCES

Vinicius de Abreu OLIVEIRA

Abstract

The study of the Universe and all its contents, the physical phenomena and the evolution of the sky objects has always attracted the Humanity. The Astronomy begins to try to explain these things, others sciences too. Therefore, we think a good first contact with the science world can be using a mobile inflatable planetarium and a portable telescope to show the amazing things about Astronomy. The first one allows us to show, in minutes, all the movements of the stars during a full night, explaining about observational Astronomy and so on. In addition to that, using a telescope we can show in real these movements and some interesting details about planets and constellations. The feedback from the students and teachers after the planetarium sections was important to us to evaluate the real necessity of works like that. The conclusion was directly: the whole audience loved the experience and almost all pretend go back in the next time.

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