Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 16, 2015

Schulz did quite a few strips in which the kids contemplated the stars back in the 60s. They were more contemplative back then.

Curiously, the Calvin and Hobbes strip today has a similar theme.

Next Linus is going to ask his sister how many grains of sand there are on a beach when they’re at a beach.

Along with 7 planets and 52 asteroids.

Hm. And one star more on leap years?

I did the same in west Texas during family vacation. I stopped the car and told my son, who was a little boy at the time, to get out of the car with me and I told him to just look up at the sky. It was really a marvelous experience.

Lucy always was happy to share the dearth of her knowledge…

The first time I went to Brazil it was strange to look at the night sky: other than the Southern Cross, I didn’t know a single constellation. Still was beautiful though.

Lucy in the sky with smeg for brains.

I have a little “gift” type of book that contains only Schulz’s “star” cartoons. It is one of my prize possessions. I was just thinking about that book as I came to this comic, and was surprised to see one of them today.

Don’t forget one extra for leap year (366).

Complex things are so much simpler with the Peanuts gang…

I can understand how scientists know how old stars are or how hot they are or how big they are or how far away they are, but how do they know their names?

They have updated today’s C&H strip to a normal weekday strip, so it now long is a match for today’s Peanuts theme.

Really? I didn’t know that.

Lucy was always the most disorderly part of the “Peanuts” universe…….

Nobody’s thrown in a Carl Sagan reference? Commentators these days….

10000000000000000000000 or more.

I often see a pole star out of my bedroom window.

Beautiful!

xxx

You’d be surprised how many kids “these days” are into astronomy.