1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story we are 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: gonna go into space. Are you ready to learn about 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: the lights that we see in the sky at night? 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: Me too. If you have an awesome idea for a 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: discovery about science, send it to our Instagram page Kids 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: Short Stories or go to Kids short Stories dot org 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn your idea into an awesome science adventure. 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: Are you ready for this one? Me too? Let's go. 9 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: One day, Derek was in his backyard with his brothers 10 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: and his parents and they were having a bonfire. Do 11 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: you guys know what a bonfire is? Yeah? A campfire 12 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: or a bonfire is is when you take sticks and 13 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: you put them together in a pile with stones or 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: rocks around it, and then you light them on fire. Well, 15 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: actually the grown ups will do that, and the grown 16 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: ups they light the fire and it is nice and warm. 17 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: That's another fun thing that we like to do in 18 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: the fall. And Derek was really good at finding all 19 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: the sticks and branches and breaking them into smaller pieces 20 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: so that they could fit in the campfire. Well, today 21 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: they were gonna be roasting marshmallows. Who likes roasting marshmallows? Oh? 22 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: I see you yep, I know. We have a lot 23 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: of listeners that like marshmallows, and Derek was a very 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: good marshmallow roaster. He would put a marshmallow on the 25 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: stick and hold it over the fire and wow, the 26 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: fire was very hot, so he needed a long stick 27 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: to stay away from the flames. And while they were 28 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: all having fun sitting around the campfire, they Derek looked 29 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: up in the sky and he said, what in the 30 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: world are those lights in the sky. Have you ever 31 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 1: looked up in the sky at night and seen all 32 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: those lights? Yeah? Well, the moon is the big one, 33 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 1: but what are all those smaller lights? Oh? Those are stars? 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: You're right, you're right, But what exactly is a star? Hmm? 35 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: I wonder do you wonder about that? So did Derek, 36 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: and he said, guys, let's call Mr Jim the side 37 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: guy and see if he can show us or teach 38 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: us something about those lights in the sky. And so 39 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: they called Mr Jim the SI guy and he answered 40 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: and said, oh, hey, Derek, how are you doing. Oh 41 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Derek said he was really happy to 42 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: see the side guy. He said, Sie guy, Um, I 43 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: had a question about the lights in this guy. I 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: know I've seen them a lot at nighttime, but then 45 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: during the daytime they're gone. I don't see him anymore. 46 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: And I was wondering if you could tell us where 47 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: they go and who turns them? Who turns those lights out? 48 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: Can you explain that to us? Oh, that's a great question. 49 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: I love it, the side guy said. He said, how 50 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: about I come over and maybe we can take a 51 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: trip into the sky and we can look at where 52 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: those lights are and how they work. Does that sound good? 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: That sounds amazing, Derek said, And just like that, the 54 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 1: side guy appeared. Hey guys, SI guy. All the kids 55 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: were so happy be to see him. Derek and his 56 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: brothers were so excited to learn, and so the SIGI 57 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: said it, all right, who wants to learn about the 58 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: lights in the sky? Me me, me, me, me, me me. Well, 59 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: you see, I think we all know that those are 60 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: called stars, right, Yeah, And you see stars are lights 61 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: way of way, way way far away, high in the 62 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: sky in outer space. Have you guys heard of space before? Yeah? 63 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: Space is this humongous place that our planet Earth is 64 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: kind of floating inside of. Yeah, And so as we're floating, 65 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of stars which are those lights that 66 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: are around us, and it's kind of hard to understand, 67 00:04:56,279 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: but they're really far away. And did you know that 68 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: our Earth is spinning? Uh? No, said Derek. What do 69 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 1: you mean it's spinning? Like what if it's been so fast, 70 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: are we gonna get dizzy? No, it's not going to 71 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: spin that well, it is spinning very fast, but we 72 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: don't get dizzy because we're sitting on this big, big, big, 73 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: big planet and so it doesn't feel like it's spinning 74 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: that fast. But it actually it's spinning very fast. And 75 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: so as it turns and spins, we get to see 76 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: some stars for a little bit, and then our Earth 77 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: turns away from those stars. And then guess what what, 78 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: Mr Sagay, Well, what happens in the morning when we 79 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 1: wake up? Why does it get bright again? What happens? 80 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: M M. Derek had to think. Okay, so sometimes when 81 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: he wakes up really early in the more and it's 82 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: pretty dark, but then it gets light outside. Oh, Derek said, 83 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: that's the sun. The sun comes up and then it 84 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:14,239 Speaker 1: makes everything right again. You nailed it, Derek. The sag 85 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: I started to explain. He said, you see that when 86 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: the sun comes up, it's brighter then the stars are 87 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: to us because it's closer. Huh. Derek was kind of confused. 88 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: M hmm, how about Yeah, this is kind of hard 89 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: to understand by me just explaining it. What do you 90 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: guys think? Do you guys want to go to space 91 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: and go check it out? Uh? Definitely. Derek was so 92 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 1: excited the sage I said, well, it looks like I 93 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: only have one seat in my spaceship right here, you 94 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,160 Speaker 1: have a spaceship. Yeah, it's in my pocket, you see. 95 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 1: And then he pulled out the little spaceship. But when 96 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 1: he threw it in the grass at Boo, it got 97 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: pretty big. It looks like you can fit a couple 98 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: of people in there. Yeah. Well two of the seats 99 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: don't have seatbelts today, so it's it could just be 100 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,239 Speaker 1: me and Mr Derek and we can go to space, 101 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: go check it out, and then we'll be right back. 102 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: Derek and the Siege I climbed into the spaceship and 103 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: zoomed off. He brought a phone with him so that 104 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: he could talk to his parents the whole time. It 105 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: was so cool. W As Derek and the SI guy 106 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: blasted off into space, they couldn't believe their eyes. They 107 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: were shooting through the clouds all the way, higher and 108 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: higher and higher, and all of a sudden we made it. 109 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: Derek looked out the window and whoa, the whole everything 110 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: around him was dark. They were in space. It was 111 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: so cool, and oh, look over way over there, there's 112 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: the stars. The side guy pulled out some really special sunglasses. 113 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: He said, all right, Derek, put the sunglasses on, and 114 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: then we're gonna go do some exploring. As they drove 115 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: around space, they started to see all the stars. The 116 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: stars were just way far away, but the sun was 117 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: definitely a lot bigger and closer. SA guy said, all right, 118 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:49,119 Speaker 1: what do you think the stars are made of a lightbulb? 119 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: Derek said, that's a good guess, but actually no, they're 120 00:08:53,960 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: not lightbulbs. They're actually balls of fire. What Derek said, Yeah, 121 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: the stars are made of fire and gas. So gas 122 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: is something that stays on fire and it's just burning, 123 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 1: and that is the light we see. The stars are 124 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: millions of miles away, very very far, way too far 125 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: for us to drive to, and they're very hot because 126 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: they're made of fire. And so when the light when 127 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: we see it during nighttime, it's because it's very dark. 128 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: But during the daytime when the sun comes out and 129 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: we see the sun and it brightens everything, the sun 130 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 1: is brighter to us in the sky than the stars, 131 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: and so no one is actually turning the stars light out. 132 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,319 Speaker 1: It's just that the sun is brighter to us, and 133 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: that's why we can't see the stars anymore. Oh, Derek said, 134 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: do you mean the stars are still up in the 135 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: sky the whole time and it's just that we can't 136 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: see him anymore? Exactly. Wow, I didn't know that. Derek said, 137 00:10:14,679 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: all right, Derek, let's get back to your campfire and 138 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: let's tell your family everything we learned. Sue as a 139 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: spaceship carefully landed back in Derek's backyard. They were so 140 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: excited to share what they learned. He said, guys, you 141 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: won't believe this. The stars are actually made a fire. 142 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 1: What his brother said, Derek couldn't wait to tell his 143 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: family everything he had learned that night. What an amazing 144 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 1: adventure with Mr Jim the Sagai. The end