Answer to Question #222248 in Astronomy | Astrophysics for LITTILE DINNY

Question

2.1 Talk to at least three people who speak different languages and find out the following:

 

2.1.1What is the equivalent word for Universe in their mother tongue? Write the word and specify the language.

 2.1.2 Find out what they learned from their parents/grandparents about the stars and other heavenly bodies.

 

Answer 1

2.1.1 Вселенная [vselennaya] (Russian), Universo (Spanish), 宇宙 [yǔzhòu] (Chinese).

2.1.2 The first friend told me that he learned that the starts are very far and for the observer on Earth they form constellations. The second friend told me that he learned that starts can be considered as point sources of light. The third one told me that he learned that stars emit light, while planets reflect light.