Stars

Summer is nearly here! What are you all doing for the summer? Are your holidays already packed with things to do? Anyway when I was in New Zealand I liked looking at the stars at night. Aren't they wonderful? It's also interesting that the stars we see on the earth may already be gone. What I mean is that  the distance between the earth and the star is so large that the light is still coming to earth even if the star was gone. Anyway since I liked gazing upon the stars I study a little bit on constellations. Currently in Japan you can see the 夏の大三角形 or the great summer triangle(?). It cosists of vega, altair and deneb. It is said that the stars that make up the triangle are so bright that you could still see a glimpse of it in a city. Also, since its nearly tanabata day lets talk about it. The vega is the Origime and the altair is the hikoboshi. If you look carefully you can see the milky way going through the triangle. If you want to find the great triangle look to the east at night. Other stars you maybe able to find is the scorpio and the libra. Hope this encouraged you to go look at the night sky.