Looking Through A Telescope, I See...
by
Apeksha Singh
As I look through a telescope, I see a new world undiscovered. You wonder what is really out there and your imagination just turns on. You could believe of aliens or of other galaxies. Different parts of space, which since no one has proven much about, can be whatever I want it to be. So many questions come to mind such as: "Could there be any other life, maybe like us or not like us?" and, "How much is really out there, does it really go on forever?" I really want to know the answers to so many questions on space, but until we know for sure all I can do is imagine.
I see so many different things looking through a telescope. There are planets, stars, comets, asteroids, moons, and so much more. The planets have so many different qualities such as color, rings, and other things we don't know much about. Some people think Mars is red for all the blood since the life there is in constant battle and others think Saturn's rings are the planet's hula-hoops. When I look at the planets I imagine them for many different things. Even though I learned so much about the true facts, I still think up the imaginative type of thought. The planets look to me like different common objects. Mercury is a giant ball of a potato with a tiny peel of skin taken of it. Venus is a burst of fire or sometimes Earth's twin. Mars is a rusty red tomato. Jupiter is a wrinkly face with a mouth but no eyes. Saturn is an old orange with millions of flies flying around it. Uranus is part of dark blackness that looks like a piece of the sky. Neptune is an ocean with little islands. If Pluto was still a planet it looked like a slightly burnt chocolate-chip cookie. Stars look like little diamonds according to me except for our sun. There are occasional comets which look like space's laser lights because of their tails forming a beam of light. There is space's gate I see as I look between Mars and Jupiter, the Asteroid Belt. Finally there are moons, which I see as giant clumps of marshmallow. Things in space, as you can see, are quite different in my perspective.
Sometimes, space has some extraordinary events such as solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. During a solar eclipse the moon from Earth is dark. With the glow behind it from the sun it looks like a huge glowing hoop, kind of like a sideways halo. During a lunar eclipse, the moon looks red and orange. It looks like a brown-spotted peach. So as I look through a telescope I see some of the most amazing sights of space.
As I look through a telescope I see things you might never imagine. Until we know everything we can about space, all I see out there is my imagination at work.