Podcast Analysis Form
BBC
Podcast title: _________________________________
Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?
Episode title: __________________________________
4 interesting facts you learned
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Carl Sagan was the one to state there are more stars then sand at the beach.
Many stars are not visible from Earth because they are too far away.
We can only see about 5,000 stars with the naked eye
Some stars we see in the sky don’t actually exist anymore.
3 New Science Vocabulary Words Defined:
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Observable Universe-The part of the universe
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we can see because its light has had time to
reach Earth
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As I listened, one question I
thought of is…
What tools or missions have been
made or should be made to help
us see even farther into the world?”
Fermi Estimate- A quick, rough calculation
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used to estimate numbers too big to count
directly.
Did you like the podcast?
Why or why not?
I like how descriptive it is and how
much detail it goes into.
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Spectroscope- A tool scientists use to study
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the light from stars to learn what they are
made of and how they’re moving.
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