Want to Share a Bit of Heaven with Your Child?
Now that school has once again started, children and their parents face the pressure that comes with wanting to do well. That means completing homework, studying for tests, and all the related activities. These are necessary, but they can be somewhat joyless.
In all the pressure, we should never forget that learning can provide some phenomenal experiences. So if you have a bit of time and want to share some fascinating material with your child, material like this:
You can go to a site where you can see the "ten most amazing pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope." You can find it at: http://groups.msn.com/SailingWithDevious/toptenhubblepictures.msnw
How did these pictures come to be?
After it was launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope began relaying back to Earth, incredible snapshots of the heavens. Recently, astronauts voted on the top photographs taken by this floating laboratory. The end result, as one reporter put it, is a display of our universe that "is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful."
The photos are truly breathtaking. And should you and your child want to have some discussion about the content of the images, the site offers some interesting comments. On the other hand, you can just sit back in awe--and be inspired by beauty that goes beyond the magnificent.
