BY STELLA AND HARRISON

On one of the coldest nights in January we set out on an exciting mission: to look at the solar system.

Some of the team at the Mog Chronicle heard that at 5pm Dr. Francisco Diego would be standing outside the gates of Ruskin Park with his giant telescopes to look at all the intergalactic planets.

Dr. Diego was born in Mexico City and he is a lecturer at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. Fun fact: he has been on 20 solar eclipse expeditions. That is just interstellar!

We saw Jupiter (and four of its whopping 95 moons), Saturn and its dazzling rings as well as the moon.

Our favourite was Saturn because you could clearly see the rings around it. It looked off white in colour and shone radiantly in the dark, moonlight night sky.

We also got to see the Bay of Rainbows on the moon which is a large mountainous area. It was catching the sun’s light so it looked like it was floating just above the craters of the moon.

The moon also looked like it had a rainbow lining going all the way around it.

Around 10 to 15 of us were there – some parents and mostly JKPS students – and as the weather was really cold we were all bundled up. Even so, after about half an hour we were all freezing but still jumping around with excitement.

It felt amazing and made us think about the giant universe we are part of. Compared to it, we are miniscule.