Why do we need to sleep and what's in the night sky above us when we do?

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Greetings, Earthling! If you have intercepted this signal, congratulations! You're about to launch off Earth and take a trip around the solar system... and BEYOND!

In this week's Science Weekly, astronomer Mark Thompson is talking to Dan about the night sky and sleeping! What questions should we be asking about space - why is the universe expanding? Are we truly alone in the universe, or could there be an alien science podcast out there? Mark tells all.

Your science questions are being answered! This week, you can find out why car windows fog up and why boomerangs come back to us after we throw them. Plus, Professor Pulsar has signed you up for a brand new class all about Mars, so I hope you brought your notebook. Attendance will be taken!

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0:00.0	In this week's episode of Activity Quest, Adam's off to Longleet Safari Park, and
0:04.6	George is making a special something to help with Safari's too.
0:07.9	That's Activity Quest, the podcast pack with stuff to do.
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0:30.0	Well it must be the time of the week where we're getting itchy feet being down here on
0:56.7	planet earth.
0:58.3	So here's an idea, why don't we take a very quick trip and adventure across the universe.
1:07.5	Welcome to a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:11.2	My name is Dan, every week we search out some science secrets lurking around the solar
1:15.7	system further through the galaxy, and then further still across the entire thing.
1:21.2	And we've got a lot of space this week, we're chatting to an astronomy expert, Mark Thompson
1:25.7	who has spent years looking across the galaxy, and he talks about some of the most amazing
1:30.8	things that he's found.
1:33.2	We know the universe formed about 14 billion years ago in something called the Big Bang,
1:36.7	and that caused the universe to start expanding, but for some unknown reason, the universe
1:41.1	expanding faster now than it ever was before.
1:43.8	We don't know what's driving that expansion.
1:47.3	And we'll stay up there, we're heading to deep space, high the smartest school around
1:52.5	this time, we're getting a lesson on Mars.
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