“I think that you can even treat these images as art and kind of take in the beauty of our galaxy,' Air & Space Museum director of education Becky Gould said. 'And then there are ways to simplify things to colors or to things that we do know on Earth.'
“I think that you can even treat these images as art and kind of take in the beauty of our galaxy. And then there are ways to simplify things to colors or to things that we do know on Earth," Gould said.A child sports a NASA shirt on Telescope Day at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park on July 14, 2022.
On Thursday, about a dozen children heard from Gould and other museum employees and volunteers about how the giant telescope works. It was all brought home to them using toys such as stomp rockets, which allows the children to jump on an air bladder that fires off a plastic rocket. And there was more.A group of children jump on stomp rockets at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park on July 14, 2022.
“We have pinwheels that are in a spiral shape so that you can kind of have a 3D model of the galaxies that we’re seeing. And we have some NASA giveaways, and we have some spyglasses that we’re having the children look through, so that they can practice being astronomers just like the people of old," Gould said.A girl blows on a pinwheel, used to represent a galaxy, at the Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park on July 14, 2022.
The spyglasses and pinwheels seemed to be a hit, and the children had some ideas about what the Webb telescope does, too.Two boys look through spy glasses to help them understand how telescopes work at the Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park on July 14, 2022.Seven-year-old Victoria Woodall said: “It’s a telescope that just went into space.
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