Today, the Rohingya refugee kids paid attention like never before. They couldn’t get enough about the sizes and distances between planets. Rukiyah took pride in calculating the diameters of each planet, given their radii.
They marveled at the fact that Jupiter is over ten times bigger,in diameter, than Earth, and the sun is ten times bigger than Jupiter.
They oohed and ahhed as I walked all the way to the back white board to show how far out Uranus, Pluto and Neptune were.
But the thing that blew their minds was learning about galaxies and the universe. I asked them guess how many stars (suns) were in the Milky Way galaxy. Incredibly, Arfat guessed 400 billion. The right answer is that we don’t know, but scientists estimate there are between 100 billion and 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Arfat was pretty pleased with himself.
At the end of the discussion, Nur was so excited, he asked me to take a bunch of pictures.