If you want to take their curiosity further, here are a few simple ways parents and kids can explore the wonders of astronomy together:

• Explore all of the things they can see in the sky: clouds, airplanes, rainbows, the sun, the moon and stars.
• Ask, “What does the sky look like in the day? How does it look different at night?”
• On a sunny day, go out and hunt for shadows. Look for your own shadow and look for the shadows of trees and buildings. Try going out at different times of day — and notice how shadows get longer or shorter depending on where the sun is located in the sky. Play with shadows inside with a flashlight!
• In the evening or early morning, try to find the moon in the sky. Talk about the shape together and introduce simple moon vocabulary: Is it a new moon? A crescent moon? A quarter moon? A full moon? Record what you see together each night in a moon journal.