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Naked Eye Astronomy


Commenting on Jose Antonio Abreu's "El Sistema" TED Fellow Alex MacDonald asks:

Could astronomy play a similar empowering role in the lives of young people in Africa? With minimal light pollution, Africa has some of the darkest skies on the planet making the beauties of our galaxy as accessible as simply looking up. Under African skies, an El Sistema-like approach to naked-eye astronomy could help plant the seeds of science in the minds of young Africans. Children and young adults could be taught and trained in the stories of the night sky; not the stories of the constellations but the stories of the stars and planets themselves...[continue reading]

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