Following their visit on Saturday to the Werner Schmidt Observatory, the grandkids were talking about the stars last night.
At first, they wanted to find Polaris, the “north star”, but the conversation quickly turned to Alpha Centauri, the triple star system closest to our own sun.
Bob informed us that Alpha Centauri is “only a few miles away” (it is actually 4.35 light-years from the Sun).
When Emme and I objected, telling Bob that the distance between us and our neighboring star system is a good deal more than a few miles, James chimed in:
James (exasperated tone): “Bob! It’s farther away than that, more like 130 miles!”