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Fictional stories about the starry sky. Essay "Starry Sky". Constellation Canis Minor

MOU Travninskaya secondary school Dovolensky district, Novosibirsk region

Literary and poetry competition "Sunny Country"
Nomination: Real or fictional stories
Subject:Star

One family had no children. The couple lost all hope and resigned themselves to their fate. They understood that only a miracle could help them. But they were too old to believe in miracles.
One late evening, the couple saw a falling star in the sky. They had one desire for both of them - to become parents. That's what they wished for.
And soon our heroes heard a child’s heart-rending cry. It seemed that the child was crying right under the windows of the house. Opening the doors, they saw a little girl. She amazed with her extraordinary beauty. The man took the girl in his arms and, feeling a surge of tenderness, entered the house. The woman looked around the yard, but did not notice anyone or anything. Entering the house, she beckoned the child to her. The girl looked up at her. The eyes were blue-blue, like the Universe itself. A sweet face was framed by golden hair. Warmth radiated from the child. And our heroes were also struck by the fact that the girl seemed to emit a flickering light, like a star. Well, how can you not love such a child?!
The couple fell in love with the girl at first sight and raised her as their own daughter. They gave her a name - Ariel. She grew up in affection and love. Every year, parents discovered more and more new abilities and possibilities of the child. But sometimes they noticed strange things about her and considered it a quirk. Ariel spoke to the stars. She told her parents that the stars were calling her to them. She really wants to go to the stars, but she cannot leave Earth until she grows up. The woman was very worried after such conversations with her daughter, and the man chuckled. He was a very practical person and did not believe in any miracles. Although he admitted that the very appearance of the girl was a miracle. But he explained it in his own way: “For our long-suffering, we were rewarded by God or providence. But we deserve it. My daughter is happy with us, why does she need to go somewhere?”
Time passed, the girl grew up. But her desire to go into space only grew stronger over the years. When she thought about this, her skin glowed with a flickering light. One day, Ariel realized that air was for her like water for the inhabitants of the watery depths. She easily kicked off the ground with her feet and soared high into the sky. The parents were stunned and scared. And they also realized that now nothing would keep their beloved girl on Earth, next to them. How heavy their hearts became for both of them. A man and a woman would not mind at all if their daughter remained an ordinary person.
The time has come for separation. Ariel grew stronger, became more comfortable in the air, and the stars inexorably called to her. She promised her parents not to forget and to visit. And again she easily pushed off the Earth with her feet and quickly flew upward. Her golden hair fluttered like flames. Ariel quickly left the earth's atmosphere and found herself in airless space. There, far in space, she felt only a pleasant lightness. There was no usual earthly breathing, but she lived! She was at home! And it seemed to her that the stars were whispering friendly words. From somewhere outside, a voice or something like a voice was heard, telling her that she was a Child of the Cosmos! This news gave me strength. Ariel was overwhelmed with delight. She could move freely from star to star, from one Galaxy to another. And when she got tired, she could sit down on some passing asteroid or meteorite. Stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, shimmering with pink, blue, green light, and even all the colors of the rainbow, stunned and delighted the small but fearless girl. Only the mysterious black “holes” did not Ariel approach. She knew there was danger there!
Our little, fragile girl remembered that she was raised on the wonderful blue planet Earth. She is used to considering the Earth her home. Ariel often visited her parents, telling them about what she saw and heard there, far from Earth. The parents fell in love with their daughter even more. They looked forward to her unexpected returns and were frightened by her unexpected departures.
One day, while walking far in space, Ariel met aliens. They were short, their skin was gray, covered with large folds. Huge green eyes angrily examined the girl from under the brow ridges. They understood perfectly well who they met on their way, they knew that the cosmos gave the girl strength. Therefore, they invited her to join them. We shared our plans. And the most immediate plans were the destruction of planet Earth. Ariel refused without hesitation. She decided to save her home planet at all costs. The stars gave the fearless girl an unusually strong and beautiful star shield. The sun gave her fiery power.
There were countless aliens. They simultaneously turned towards the Earth. A green light streamed from their eyes, bringing death to the planet. Ariel created a star shield around herself and repelled the alien attack. Gathering a powerful fireball in her hand, the child of the Cosmos destroyed the uninvited evil “guests” with one blow.
The gray creatures were destroyed, and the small planet glowed blue under the rays of the sun. The poor girl gave all her strength to save her home, her loved ones and those dear to her, and turned into the brightest star in our entire Galaxy. It still shines brightly and provocatively in the mysterious night sky. With its radiance, the star makes people’s souls purer and lures them into the starry distances.

Mazhorova Anastasia

I really like looking at the starry sky.

In the summer, in a village where there are no multi-storey buildings, I go out into the street at night, sit near the house and look at the sky.

The starry sky sometimes looks deep, bottomless, and sometimes it seems that you can stretch out your hand and reach the stars.

At first, looking at the starry sky, you become a little scared, you even feel dizzy, it seems that if you don’t stay on your feet, you can fall into the heavenly abyss. But then you realize that the sky is like a fluffy, soft blanket, it caresses and warms. And involuntarily, looking at the stars, you want to smile.

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Municipal educational institution

"Secondary school No. 27"

g.o. Saransk

City literary and creative competition

"Russia is a space power"

dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the space flight

first cosmonaut Yu.A. Gagarin

Composition

starry sky

Completed by: 4th grade student A

Municipal educational institution "School No. 27"

Mazhorova Anastasia

Checked by: primary school teacher

Terletskaya N.V.

2011

starry sky

I really like looking at the starry sky.

In the summer, in a village where there are no multi-storey buildings, I go out into the street at night, sit near the house and look at the sky.

The starry sky sometimes looks deep, bottomless, and sometimes it seems that you can stretch out your hand and reach the stars.

My favorite time to look at the starry sky is in July and August. It is at this time that many stars fall from the sky. It is believed that if you manage to make a wish before the shooting star goes out, it will definitely come true.

Whether this is so, I don’t know. I've never been able to make a wish while a star is falling. After all, they fall so quickly, in a matter of seconds. They flash like a spark, sweep across the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail, and disappear.

When I was very little, I felt very sorry for the little stars that were falling. I sadly told my mother: “There is one less star in the sky. What if people lived on it too?”

And I was also very interested in: “Where do the stars fall? Can they be found on earth?” To which my mother replied: “No, they burn up in the atmosphere and do not have time to reach the surface of the earth.”

Now, having grown older, I myself can learn everything about the stars from books.

Now I know for sure that a falling star is not a dead planet, but meteors and meteorites, solid cosmic particles and stones that, moving towards the Earth, fall into its atmosphere and burn up, causing a glow.

Some very large meteorites are still able to reach the Earth's surface. Entire expeditions are often sent to search for them.

Scientists, by studying the composition of meteorites, learn what the planets of the solar system were formed from, and what the Sun was like billions of years ago.

Television programs often talk about such a phenomenon as “star rain,” when thousands of meteors fall from the sky at the same time. I have never seen “star rain” myself, only in TV reports from the “News” program. But I really want to watch this phenomenon myself! It must be very beautiful! A real fireworks display from the stars!

I really hope that someday I will be able to see in the night sky how a huge number of meteors are falling at the same time...

And maybe one day I will even be able to find a piece of a meteorite that fell from the sky...

But I’m not the only one who likes to watch the stars. At all times, the sky has fascinated and attracted all humanity. Since ancient times, people have dreamed of conquering space and revealing all its secrets.

But the conquest of airspace was very long and difficult. Only the bravest and most desperate people decided to build aircraft and took them into the air. At first there were balloons, airships, airplanes, and in the twentieth century airplanes and spaceships appeared. The flights of the first testers were not always successful. There were many cases when brave souls died.

Nowadays, we are no longer surprised when we see a plane flying in the sky. And in the night sky you can often see a satellite flying by. Man has completely conquered near-Earth space.

This year marks fifty years since man first set out on space travel.

The first cosmonaut to fly into space was Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. On April 12, 1961, he went into space on the Vostok spacecraft. His flight lasted only one hour and forty-eight minutes. During this time, he flew once around the globe, and then safely ejected to Earth.

The second flight into space was made on August 6, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one by German Titov. His flight had already lasted more than 24 hours. German Titov also returned safely to Earth.

In June of one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three, the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, flew into space.

For their flights into space, the first cosmonauts received many different awards. They became honorary citizens of many cities around the world, and the streets of these cities are named after them.

However, successful flights into space by the first cosmonauts do not mean at all that space travel is safe. Not once have human space flights ended tragically.

And these days, no one can guarantee the safe return of astronauts to Earth. There, far from Earth, various unforeseen situations can happen.

Not so long ago, in two thousand and three, an American spaceship crashed due to a malfunction in the system. All eight crew members were killed. Of course, scientists are doing everything possible to avoid such tragedies, but no one is immune from trouble.

It would seem that since space flights are so dangerous, maybe they should be stopped altogether, in order to avoid the loss of lives?

No! After all, astronauts do not fly into space for the sake of a walk or an exciting journey. They fly there to work. Cosmonauts monitor the state of the Earth's surface, the weather, and conduct various scientific experiments and research. In addition, astronauts often have to go out into outer space to work, which is very dangerous, because the phenomenon that we observe from Earth, such as the fall of meteors and meteorites, carries a serious danger there in space. Solid space particles in outer space fly at the speed of a bullet and can hit an astronaut and damage the spacesuit and even cause serious injuries.

That is why only the bravest people in good health go into space. But even they have to undergo serious training before flying.

Admiring the starry sky, I often think that somewhere up there, high, high, people are working...

What would our life be like without space explorers?

After all, space is fraught with many secrets and mysteries that our brave astronauts have yet to reveal. And I admire their heroism, their courage, resilience and determination.

If you look up on a clear, cloudless night, you will see a magnificent picture of the starry sky. Thousands of flickering multi-colored lights form fancy shapes, captivating the eye. In ancient times, people believed that these were burning lanterns attached to the crystal vault of heaven. Today we all know that these are not lanterns, but stars. What are stars? Why are they shining and how far are they from us? How are stars born and how long do they live? This and much more is our story.

To understand what a star is, just look at our Sun. Yes, yes, our Sun is a star! But how can this be? - you ask. “After all, the Sun is big and hot, and the stars are so small and don’t provide any warmth at all.” The whole secret is in the distance. The sun is practically “nearby” - only about 150 million kilometers, and the stars are so far away that scientists do not even use the concept of “kilometers” to measure the distance to the stars. They came up with a special unit of measurement called the “light year.” We will tell you about the light year a little later, but for now...

Why are stars colored? Hot and cold stars
The stars we observe vary in both color and brightness. The brightness of a star depends both on its mass and on its distance. And the color of the glow depends on the temperature on its surface. The coolest stars are red. And the hottest ones have a bluish tint. White and blue stars are the hottest, their temperature is higher than the temperature of the Sun. Our star, the Sun, belongs to the class of yellow stars.

How many stars are there in the sky?
It is almost impossible to calculate even approximately the number of stars in the part of the Universe known to us. Scientists can only say that there may be about 150 billion stars in our Galaxy, which is called the Milky Way. But there are other galaxies! But people know much more accurately the number of stars that can be seen from the surface of the Earth with the naked eye. There are about 4.5 thousand such stars.

How are stars born?
If the stars light up, does that mean someone needs it? In the endless space there are always molecules of the simplest substance in the Universe - hydrogen. Somewhere there is less hydrogen, somewhere more. Under the influence of mutual attractive forces, hydrogen molecules are attracted to each other. These attraction processes can last for a very long time - millions and even billions of years. But sooner or later, the hydrogen molecules are attracted so close to each other that a gas cloud forms. With further attraction, the temperature in the center of such a cloud begins to rise. Another millions of years will pass, and the temperature in the gas cloud may rise so much that a thermonuclear fusion reaction will begin - hydrogen will begin to turn into helium and a new star will appear in the sky. Any star is a hot ball of gas.

The lifespan of stars varies significantly. Scientists have found that the greater the mass of a newborn star, the shorter its lifespan. The lifespan of a star can range from hundreds of millions of years to billions of years.

Light year
A light year is the distance covered in a year by a beam of light traveling at a speed of 300 thousand kilometers per second. And there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year! So, from the closest star to us, called Proxima Centauri, a beam of light travels for more than four years (4.22 light years)! This star is 270 thousand times farther from us than the Sun. And the rest of the stars are much further away - tens, hundreds, thousands and even millions of light years from us. This is why stars appear so small to us. And even in the most powerful telescope, unlike planets, they are always visible as dots.

What is a "constellation"?
Since ancient times, people have looked at the stars and seen in the bizarre figures that form groups of bright stars, images of animals and mythical heroes. Such figures in the sky began to be called constellations. And, although in the sky the stars included by people in this or that constellation are visually close to each other, in outer space these stars can be located at a considerable distance from each other. The most famous constellations are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. The fact is that the constellation Ursa Minor includes the Polar Star, which is pointed to by the north pole of our planet Earth. And knowing how to find the North Star in the sky, any traveler and navigator will be able to determine where north is and navigate the area.

Supernovae
Some stars, at the end of their lives, suddenly begin to glow thousands and millions of times brighter than usual, and eject huge masses of matter into the surrounding space. It is commonly said that a supernova explosion occurs. The glow of the supernova gradually fades and eventually only a luminous cloud remains in the place of such a star. A similar supernova explosion was observed by ancient astronomers in the Near and Far East on July 4, 1054. The decay of this supernova lasted 21 months. Now in the place of this star there is the Crab Nebula, known to many astronomy lovers.

The birth, life and decay of stars is studied by the science of astronomy. Love astronomy, study it - and your life will be filled with new meaning!

Have you ever wondered how many stars there are in the sky? Or maybe they wanted to count them? The starry sky is a big mystery that has long attracted adults and children with unusual bright lights and interesting phenomena. But it turns out that the way we see it is just a beautiful wrapper, but in fact there is a whole star world with its own stories, adventures and other interesting events. Which ones exactly? Our fairy tale about the Bear and the North Star will tell about this. So make yourself comfortable.

An unusual star world or a fairy tale about the North Star and its friends

Since ancient times, the sky has been home to many small bright stars, which are perhaps the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Their shining clothes are a real opportunity for pride, because they even attract people - strange creatures living on one of the planets. Why strange? Yes, because the stars could not understand their way of life: they were always in a hurry somewhere, not even knowing the way, exposing themselves to the danger of getting lost, rarely thinking about what the world really is like and what their purpose is. Worries, worries and worries. This is how their life passed on one of the most picturesque planets in the Universe.
It was completely incomprehensible to the small bright stars how they could live like this, because, unlike people, they were never in a hurry, they lived measuredly and constantly thought about the lofty things - the meaning of life, heavenly harmony and the incredible beauty of the Universe. Most of all they were interested and fascinated by the unusual laws that governed their world, which was called Cosmos. Comets, meteorites and entire systems of planets rushed through it at incredible speed, and their routes were so precise and harmonious that they did not collide with each other. This was the essence of celestial harmony - a very well-thought-out system of rules and laws that all celestial bodies strictly adhered to.
In their free time from thinking, the stars rejoiced in their outfits, sang star songs and even did a star dance. True, it was very different from what people understood by dance. The reason for this is simple - the stars were forbidden to move from place to place, so their movements were extremely limited. The little beauties were surprised by this, but they never became indignant or protested, realizing that this was one of the rules of heavenly harmony. In general, the habit of being indignant is also inherent only in people.

Once, during such entertainment, the North Star, the brightest star in the sky, began to talk about people:
- Look, they got lost again.
- Who? - asked one of her friends.
- Yes, sailors! We swam in the wrong direction. Well, how can you go on the road without understanding the cardinal directions at all?
“Indeed,” another heavenly beauty picked up her conversation, “the Chumaks are lost.” They will have to look for salt for a long time, if they find it at all.
“And if they find it, they’ll get lost again on the way home,” Polar Star laughed loudly and suddenly fell silent. She felt it was wrong to laugh at people who lived so far below. Good for them, the stars. From above you can really see everything perfectly. But is it really as easy to live without pointers?
The North Star was not only the brightest, but also very kind and smart. So she instantly came up with an interesting idea:
- What if we become signposts for people? We will show them the way. We still can’t move away from each other, so it will be easy for people to remember our individual groups and navigate in space. And for a better understanding, we will now quickly draw a map of the starry sky.
- Great idea! — one of her closest neighbors supported Polar Star. “And I also suggest that we come up with names for our groups.” For example, Mizar, Mirak and their friends look very much like a bear to me. Why don't they call it that?
- Hmm, you look like a little bear to me! - Mizar laughed.

- Ursa Major and Ursa Minor! - Polar Star summed up, - in my opinion, it sounds great. The fairy tale about the North Star and Ursa Minor is a good name for a new and interesting story.
- Polar Star, maybe you’ll fantasize about your adventures later, but now let’s finish what we started? - Mizar interrupted her thoughts.
- Yes, sure! We need to draw a map to help people.
This is how individual constellations were formed in the starry sky, and for a long time people have become accustomed to finding their way around them. Therefore, if you don’t know something, don’t forget to raise your head to the sky from time to time. Little bright beauties are always ready to help.

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