Coming up on the Children's Hour, we explore the sun with scientists from the Sunspot Solar Observatory. The kids' crew learn how this star powers life on Earth by providing light and heat, discover how sunlight helps plants grow, how energy travels across space, and how scientists study sunspots safely. We also learn about how the observatory has suddenly closed. Join us to understand how the sun shapes our world every day and learn even more in
our learning guide which you can find at childrenshour.org. Look for the sun. Stick with us for the Children's Hour. The Children's Hour is an independent production of the Children's Hour Incorporated, a New Mexico based non-profit. We're distributed by Native Voice One, the Native American radio network. It's time for the Children's Hour. Kids Public Radio. Why did the son not have to go to college and apply for jobs directly after high school? I don't know why! Because
he already has a million degrees! It's time for the Children's Hour! Kids Public Radio! The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into The sun is the master helium at a temperature of you The sun is large, the sun is so...
It's just a middle sized star The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made The sun is a quackma It's not made of fire, forget Chons of free air, a forced state of matter, not gas, not liquid, not solid. The sun is no red dwarf I hope it never morphs into some supernova to collapse or- It's a miasma told by myself and of three. A fourth state of matter, not gas, not liquid, not solid.
They Might Be Giants from Here Comes Science. We had two in a row. Why Does the Sun Shine? And Why Does the Sun Really Shine? You're listening to The Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone, and I'm here at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico with a whole lot of kids and on Zoom. Hello, everyone. Hello. And who do we have with us today? Hi, I'm Evander. Hi, it's Nina. Hello, it's Amadeus. Hi, it's Asa. Hi, it's Teddy. Hi, it's Amaya. Hello,
it's Max. Hi, it's Julien. Hi, it's Kilian. Well everyone, I'm so excited about today's show because it's gonna be so hot. Do you know what I mean? Not exactly, but what are we talking about? It's the brightest topic in our whole solar system. The sun? The sun! Yes! We're going to be talking about the sun and we'll be speaking with scientists from the Sunspot Solar Observatory, which is the largest solar telescope in the world. The scientists
who are up there at the sunspot are in Sunspot, New Mexico at the top of a mountain. You're listening to the Children's Hour. And we're gonna learn about the sun today. You can learn a lot more in our learning guide, which is at childrenshour.org. Look for the episode called The Sun. We have a lot to learn today, but before we get there, this is Monty Python. Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid,
obnoxious or daft. And you feel that you had quite enough Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour. That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun, and
you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way The itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side to side It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us it's just three thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We
go round every two hundred million years Galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe. itself keeps on expanding and expanding in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, 12 million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth. And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, cause there's bugger
all down here on earth. You're listening to the Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone and with me are the kids crew here on Zoom and at the Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With us today are two guests from the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, which is in southern New Mexico. It's the largest solar telescope in the world and it's run by New Mexico State University. Heidi Sanchez is the education and public outreach
coordinator. Hello, Heidi. Welcome to the Children's Hour. Hi, thanks for the invite. And Sarah Jeffries is a telescope team member and works on the actual telescope. Hello, Sarah. Welcome. Hi, it's lovely to be here. The kids have a ton of questions for you. Let's go right over to Asa. What is the sun? That is a really great question. The sun is just another star. You see a lot of stars twinkling in the night sky. The sun, it's just the closest one to us.
It is the star that all of the planets revolve around. Our star is just like all the others. It's essentially a big nuclear engine that is converting hydrogen into helium, and that creates energy. Kind of like the fuel in your car that creates gas for it to be able to run. So you could think of it that way, but on a much larger scale. How did our Sun and all other
stars for that matter actually form? A lot of the stars actually formed in what we theorize to be the Big Bang, which is essentially at the very beginning of the universe a bunch of matter and energy just exploded together. Stars started to form from this big mess of gas and dust from the Big Bang. If our Sun is just another star, why does it have an entire solar system? Our sun is what started the entire solar system. As the sun got bigger, it created
a gravitational orb around it. And that orb of gas and dust ended up materializing into planets. And they got bigger and bigger until we kind of got a solid structure of planets like we have today. Our sun is not the only star with planets around it. So far, it's just the only star that we know of that has a planet with life, with human life and animal life and plant life. We've posted a lot more about this exact topic in our learning guide
with this episode. You can find it at childrenshour.org. Look for the episode called The Sun. But since we had this interview at the Sunspot Solar Observatory, which was in the winter of 2025, the Sunspot Solar Observatory has been shut down permanently. That's because the telescope itself rested on a base of liquid mercury which started to leak. Liquid mercury is very dangerous, but as of today, the Sunspot Solar Observatory is no more and it is set to be demolished.
But that doesn't mean we can't learn a whole lot about the sun from the scientists at the Sunspot Solar Observatory. And you're hearing that today on The Children's Hour. We've got a lot more to learn. Stick with us. This is The Beatles. comes the sun, here comes the sun, I say it's alright comes the sun The sun, I said, it's alright comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it's alright.
slowly melting seems like years since it's been clear Here comes the sun Here comes the sun And I say, it's alright comes the sun It comes the sun It's alright uh Clouds of gases join. Gravity will start to fill that void Hydrogen to fuse Making helium which then exudes Energy Oh, pushing outwards against the force of gravity for years And shining brightly out here in space
will I become? A rat dwarf is the common one Or will I be you? Fusing elements with magnitude I'm glo- Billions of years and my fire's still burning Core change Until my fuel source is all used up Keep up that fusion, hydrogen to helium The energy adds profile De-stable- In the star, star glow In the star glow, in the star glow In the star, star glow We'll shine with the star glow now She blow away, back to her place
In star glow, in the star glow, in the star glow, in the star glow, in the star glow, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me. Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, hiding behind a tree. These little children are asking you to please come out so we can play with you. Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun, please shine down on me.
These little children are asking you To please come out so we can play with you Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun Please shine down on, please shine down on Please shine down on me That's Bob McGrath and before that ASAP Science with A Star is Born, literally. You're listening to Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio. We'll be right back. The Children's Hour is a production of The Children's Hour Incorporated. We're a New Mexico based non-profit organization and
we're funded by listeners just like you. Learn more at childrenshour.org. New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs supports The Children's Hour. Celebrate the diverse cultural communities of New Mexico at nmculture.org. The Children's Hour is an educational nonprofit and you can donate your unwanted vehicle to the Children's Hour. Learn more at ChildrensHour.org. sun is a big ball of gas and it's 99 % of our solar system's mass. It's an average star in
our Milky Way. Warming the Earth every day. What powers our sun and makes it so bright? Come on and tell me what makes the land light. Hearts beat along the go, or reach the conclusion.
It changes hydrogen to helium by nuclear fusion. When fusion takes place, life light is created and it makes its way up Although rather belated Through the photosphere That's the part that we see The light comes out And shines on you and me About a million Earths could fit in the sun But if you were there you wouldn't have much fun It's 6,000 degrees at the photosphere And much hotter inside the solar atmosphere There are a few places where it's not so hot,
ooooh Like at the center of a big sunspot But heat is naughty, but still pretty warm Sitting on a sunspot will do you great harm Galileo discovered some spots One of those things that's funny does Their cooler part signed his field Caused by a stronger magnetic field The spots move around the face of the sun Proving to hold solar rotation A strange kind of movement to
do for all 25 days in the middle, 36 at the pole What about flair? I've heard of them here Like giant explosions in the chromosphere The magnetic fields above the sunspots Reconnecting again after being in knots Above the chromosphere the corona is placed Its millions of degrees and reaches way into space It's very thin but read my lips That's the part that you'll see in a solar eclipse That's the end of our song about Mr. Sun We hope that you find that learning
is fun But never look at the sun You could go blind Just keep on enjoying That warm sunshine That's the Chromatics right here on the Children's Hour with Sunsong 2. I'm Katie Stone and today on the Children's Hour we have captured an interview Probably and certainly the last one ever done with the children's hour from the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. It's near Cloudcroft, New Mexico atop a mountain. Unfortunately, the Sunspot Solar Observatory is to be demolished
and is shut down permanently after discovering a leak. in the liquid mercury base that was used to stabilize and hold the telescope in place. Still, the Sunspot Observatory team have a lot of information about both sunspots and the sun and how one researches the sun at all. We're talking with Heidi Sanchez. She's the Education and Public Outreach Coordinator at the Sunspot Solar Observatory and Sarah Jeffries, who's a telescope team member. Let's go over
to Teddy. Okay, so how do you look at the sun when it hurts your eyes? Right, it's never safe to look directly at the sun. You can't do it. And because our telescope is looking at the sun, it doesn't even have an eyepiece. Everything's fed through a monitor. So you kind of see that monitor that's right behind me. We feed images of the sun onto all the monitors. And so we're looking at like TV screens. That's a great question, Teddy. And it leads
me to another question, which is why are you looking at the sun every day? You seem to know everything about the sun. So why do you have to keep looking at it every single day since you know so much about it already? So we study things called sunspots. We do study other things as well, but right now that is our focus. A sunspot is essentially a small region, and I mean very small on the sun. Well. Still the size of Earth. But most sunspots, the average
size is the size of Earth. They're planet-sized regions. Meanwhile, we're considering them much smaller to the size of the sun itself. And so what we do at this telescope is we look at a very zoomed-in image of that sunspot. And the reason we do that is because it is a very highly magnetic active region. So essentially, what sunspots can produce are solar flares. And that is a huge part of our research here at Sunspot is trying to study solar flares
in extreme detail so that way we can potentially even predict them in the future. Right now we have some ways to try and predict them. Think of like the way we study earthquakes and volcano eruptions. We try and learn more and more about them so we can maybe even eventually predict and prepare for them in the future. Can the solar flares hurt Earth? I would say... The sun is having these eruptions all the time, right? But we don't always feel the effects
of that because it's getting discharged out in space. And so we're protected by a lot of the stuff that the sun discharges by Earth's magnetic field. But yeah, that stuff has the potential to be strong enough to break through. And we feel those effects because we're relying on the power grid, right? And so the sun can discharge all this energy that could really
cause like lackouts if it's strong enough. can wipe cities out of their power. And so that's why we're studying the sun every day because you know kind of what leads up to these, but can you predict where or when? No, we know kind of what leads up to the sun to behave the way it does, but we can't really predict when the big discharge is going to happen. I guess we always hear about climate change and obviously I do know that the sun plays a really important
role in the climate change. And I'm just curious, like, What would be the best way to explain that phenomenon? Yeah, that's a really interesting question, I'd say. Essentially, the sun's UV radiation, which is ultraviolet, those are what gives you sunburns. Those are the dangerous rays of radiation from the sun that we hear about all the time. Those can get stuck in our atmosphere because they bounce between the ozone layer and the surface, and then it
heats up, and it literally heats up the surface of Earth. And so it's... The combination of the sun's extreme radiation and extreme heat coming into our atmosphere just like it's supposed to be, but our atmosphere not protecting us the way that it's supposed to be because we haven't really treated it with a lot of respect, unfortunately. We have kind of blown out of proportion all of the stuff that we put into the atmosphere and that starts to essentially
cloud it up is the best way I can put it. And so these solar rays will come into the atmosphere, but they won't. leave. Usually they would bounce right off the surface, we don't have to worry about them long term, but instead they're staying and so they just keep bouncing around between the ozone layer and the surface and that heats up our surface over time. That's the voice of Sarah Jeffries. She's a telescope team member at the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot,
New Mexico. We're also hearing from Heidi Sanchez, the Education and Public Outreach Coordinator. And as I mentioned earlier, the Sunspot Solar Observatory is unfortunately closed permanently. So there are other solar observatories now around the world. that are doing similar work to what the Sunspot Solar Observatory did in studying sunspots. We're learning a lot about the sun, but there's so much more to learn. We've made a learning guide to go with this
episode so you can bring the Children's Hour into the classroom. Find it at childrenshour.org. Look for this episode, The Sun. This is Billy Kelly and Mike Bennett from Planetary Promenade. What is the sun? The sun is a star. What is a star? It's a spirit of plasma. What is plasma? It's an ionized gas. An ionized gas is superheated matter where electrons have gained enough energy
to scatter and break free from their atomic nuclei. To put it simply, the sun is a big, lighty thing in the sky.
The sun is a star and the stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the night time comes So lucky to have a little golden one The sun is a star and the stars are all suns The sun is a star and the stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the morning comes The Milky Way twinkles to the rising sun The sun is a star and the stars are all suns We are stars Everyone and everything you know It all began millions and billions of years ago Hey
The stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the night time comes Lucky to have a little golden one The sun is a star and the stars are all suns The sun is a star and the stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the morning comes The Milky Way twinkles to the rising sun The sun is a star and the stars are all suns Stars can be so many different colors Some are red, some are green Summer yellow like a golden sun, summer purple Some are black as night until they go, ka-boo!
The sun is and the stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the night time comes So lucky to have a little golden one The sun is a star and the stars are all suns The sun is a star and the stars are all suns Makes the moon smile when the morning comes Milky way twinkles to the rising sun The sun is a star and the stars are all suns The sun is a star and the stars are all suns The sun is a star and the stars are all suns yeah
The sun as a star is like father like son right here on the Children's Hour where we're learning about the sun. I'm Katie Stone. We spoke with an educator and public outreach coordinator from the Sunspot Solar Observatory in December 2025 before they got the word that mercury was leaking from underneath the telescope. That telescope is located in Sunspot, New Mexico at the top of a mountain. in the middle of a national forest. That national forest is home
to multiple endangered animals, including the Mexican spotted owl and others. And the dismantling of the Sunspot Solar Observatory is going to be quite an undertaking. But demolition is scheduled for the solar observatory, the largest and oldest in the world. There are other solar observatories around the world that have taken on the mission of studying solar flares and sunspots, but we've got with us on the show Heidi Sanchez, the Education and Public Outreach
Coordinator, and Sarah Jeffries. She's a telescope team member, and the kids have so many questions about the sun. My question is, what is the sun made of and how old is it? So the sun is actually halfway through its life cycle. It's 4.5 billion years old. So it's got another roughly 5 billion years to live. It has a life cycle and it's primarily made up of hydrogen. So 75 % is hydrogen and then 24 % is actually helium. And then less than 1 % is every element
in the universe. So think about your periodic table and every element that you see on there can be found in the sun. Wow. And it's true that all of us, like the cells that make up our bodies, we're all made of bits of pieces that had to be made in the center of a star. Is that true? Absolutely. I keep mentioning this dust that was around the sun when it first
formed, and even the dust that the sun formed from. Those are all composed of the elements that make up Earth, but they're also the elements that make up us, that make up plants, animals. water, the atmosphere, uh everything you can think of. Even the buildings we make are from the rock in Earth and those elements you can find in the sun because it was the sun that provided them for us and that's what helped create us as well as many other stars that
even came before the sun helped create those kinds of elements in our universe. I love thinking about that. Yeah, we are stardust. If all stars eventually explode, then what will happen when all of them eventually do? Where will new light come from? There are a lot of theories actually about the quote unquote end of the universe is that eventually all the stars will have been made up of all of the material they could and then everything will burn out and die.
And in all fairness, we have absolutely no idea. It's so, so far into the future. I mean, even the Big Bang is a theory at this point that we see some evidence within our universe of, but we weren't there when the Big Bang happened. the best that we can say is that what's great about stars is when they do die, sometimes they die many different ways. They explode into a supernova. They can uh shed their layers into a planetary nebula. They typically will
give off a lot of material that they were also made of. And so sometimes, not every time, but sometimes stars can die and then create a sort of nebula for new stars to be born in. And so there is a chance that billions and billions of years from now, you know, maybe they would run out of that material, but we know that our sun will be around for another 5 billion years. And for all we know, maybe a new star could be born from it at the end of the day. Why
does the moon orbit around the Earth and not the sun? So because the sun is so big, it has this really, really strong gravity. And so that gravitational pull, the thing that pulls you down on the ground, is what's pulling on all of the planets. But what is nice about the moon is that it is just, just close enough to Earth. We suspect it maybe have crashed into Earth billions of years ago and then stuck into Earth's orbit. Earth is also bigger than the
moon. And so it has a stronger gravitational pull than the moon. And since it stayed just close enough to Earth, it stayed within its orbit, just like Earth revolves around the sun. How hot is the sun? Depends on the layer. Wait, what do you mean the layer? The sun has layers? Yes. So even though it's a gas, there's like these distinct regions that you can see on the sun. And so it has like a core and then it has like this radioactive zone and it has
a convection zone. And then it has like the photosphere, the chromosphere and the corona. And so the sun that we look at that we're setting is like 10,000 degrees. But sunspots that Sarah was referencing earlier, they're only 7,000 degrees. They're cooler areas. But one of the mysteries that we haven't been able to solve, the corona, which is those faint wispy outer layers of the sun that you really can't see unless you have an eclipse that something's
got to block out that bright disc of the sun. The temperature out there is millions degrees. So how do you go from the surface of sun being 10,000 degrees to out here, it's millions of degrees. And so we haven't figured out how that happens or why. Wow. There are pictures posted at childrenshour.org. Look for this episode, The Sun, where you can see that corona. I mean, I believe you, we all believe you listening to you, but it just seems so unfathomable.
Like it seems impossible, doesn't it? Thank you for helping us know that there's so much more to learn in science and that science is not. done in studying the sun, even though it seems like the same sun every day that we see. It seems very strange because space is freezing, so maybe it's transferring heat from inside the sun. So it's already hotter inside, so it transfers to normal heat, plus heat it's already giving it. Hey, Max, you might be on
to something. Maybe there's something about the center of the sun's intense heat that somehow makes its way to Would we call this the sun's atmosphere, the corona almost? Sort of, yeah. That would be a good way to put it. I guess I always just thought that that was like particles in space that were being lit up. I had no idea that that was actually part of the sun. And that's why we're learning on the children's hour about the sun, because there is so much
more to learn. You're hearing the voices of Heidi Sanchez, the education and public outreach coordinator at the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. Along with Sarah Jeffries, she is one of the telescope team members. can learn a lot more about the Sun in our learning guide that we have posted for this episode. meets and cites educational standards for kids in elementary through middle school and you
can find it at ChildrensHour.org. Look for the Sun. And hey, tell a teacher. We've got a lot more to learn about the Sun coming up. You're listening to the Children's Hour, kids public radio. We'll be right back. The Children's Hour is making weekly learning guides for every episode thanks to the support of the Albuquerque Community Foundation. You can support this effort too. Go to childrenshour.org and click donate and find our learning guides under
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Make your plans today for the evening's on or you'll end up racing with the sun. Hard, hard times that you've had Hard, hard times But today you're mighty glad Cause your work's all through And your battle's won Now you'll never, never be racing with the sun Get your days work done. Get your days work done. Or soon you'll be racing with the sun. Make your plans today. the evenings on. For you Linda. Racing with the sun, racing with
the sun. Hard, hard time, hard, hard time, that you've had, that you've had. Hard, times But today you might be glad Of course your work's all through And your battle's Now you'll never, never be Racing with the sun Hard, hard times That you've had uh Hard, time But today you're glad Cause your work's all through And your battle's won Now you'll never, never be Racing
with the sun Racing Racing Ella Jenkins right here on the Children's Hour. And today we are learning about the sun with folks from the now about to be dismantled Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico. Our guests are Heidi Sanchez. She's the education and public outreach coordinator and Sarah Jeffries, who's the telescope team member. And Sarah, we haven't even asked you. What is that? What is a telescope team member and what do you
do? That's a great question. Essentially, I'm the one who turns on the telescope and points it at the right thing, turns on all the equipment, turns on all the cameras and actually physically takes the data. uh And so I take that data and it gets transferred down to New Mexico State University where it gets reduced and calibrated. And then that's where researchers can use it. And so me and my team are in charge of actually operating, actually using this big
telescope that you can see behind us if you get to see this visually. ah And all of its cameras, all of its equipment, all of its technology, we are in charge of its upkeep as well. If something breaks, we're in charge of fixing it. ah So it definitely is a pretty big job, especially we have a pretty small staff here, but it can run on a pretty small staff pretty
sufficiently, which is nice as well. Is this telescope like other telescopes where it's mostly a dome and there's just a little crack in the dome and your telescope goes through the little crack in the dome? The design of Sunspot Observatory telescope is very unique. The answer to that is a little complicated and with a diagram would be much more helpful. But essentially our telescope is almost like It's 360 feet long, so our telescope is really
longer than a football field from goalpost to goalpost. Whoa. Instead of it being a dome with a slit that opens for the telescope to stick through, there's these two giant balls and they each house mirrors. And so our team rotates those azimuth and elevation to attract the sunlight with those mirrors inside the entrance window. And so when the telescope's not in use, They just turn those balls with the mirrors straight down. So the telescope never like
is retracted indoors. It just turned the mirrors down so that the elements don't damage the mirrors, but they're still exposed. What's unique about us is we don't have to block as much light pollution as a nighttime observatory would. And that's what they do with their domes. They try and cut out any extra light, any extra weather. We don't have to worry about those kinds of things because the sun's... right there. It's really easy to see during the day, you
know? So that helps a lot. And is that part of why you're on the top of a mountain so remotely located? Because there's a little map that we posted to show where you're located. Are you so high up just to be have less atmospheric pollution like air pollution? Exactly. That is exactly why they built it on this mountain. The only unfortunate thing is because we're at the top of a mountain, weather forms up here. And so that is something we still have to deal
with. We have to deal with rain and thunderstorms and high winds. And obviously, we can't really take data in those conditions. So we do have benefits and downsides to our location. Absolutely. Well, I love talking with you. It's been really fun because we really didn't know. very much about the sun, it turns out. And it turns out there's a lot more to learn that even you don't know, which is very exciting for kids because there's so much left to unlock. You've been
hearing the voices of Sarah Jeffries. She's a telescope team member at the Sunspot Solar Observatory and Heidi Sanchez, who's the Education and Public Outreach Coordinator. Thank you both so much for being with us on the Children's Hour. We learned a lot from you. Thank you for being with us. Bye. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye. you.
Our conversation with the Sunspot Solar Observatory was recorded in the winter of 2025 and early in 2026 it was discovered that the bed of liquid mercury upon which the telescope sat and rotated was actually leaking. So now the Sunspot Solar Observatory is no more and it is set to be demolished. You can learn a lot more about the Sunspot Solar Observatory as well as the Sun in our learning guide. It's posted to ChildrensHour.org. Look for this episode, The Sun. This is The
Singing Planets, right here on The Children's Hour. Cause if you're gonna fly to the closest one Don't be surprised to learn it's your very own song And half how do you think that it
is gonna be? Well, you're gonna have to do some trigonometry Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away If you come to visit, land the stake Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away I'm the sunshine in every day If you like a place that is really hot You needn't go out looking, I know just the spot You'll never have to worry that you'll ever freeze I have a temperature of 15 million
degrees Now you may wish the Earth was closer to my light You gotta keep a distance that's exactly right Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away If you come to visit, plan to stay Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away I'm the sun shining every day 93 million miles away 93 million miles away If you come to visit, plan to stay Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away I'm the sun shining everyday 93 million miles
away 93 million miles away If you come to visit, plan to stay Cause I'm 93 million miles away 93 million miles away Sing about the sun, there's only one Sing about the sun and have some fun Sing about the moon, you can really croon Sing about the moon, it's my favorite tune Sing about bugs, beautiful bugs Sing about the bees if you please Sing about the stars up in the sky They make me so happy that I start to cry Oh, sing about, sing about, sing about, sing about anything.
Yeah, sing about, sing about, sing about, sing about. Mm-hmm-hmm-hmm. Mm-hmm-hmm-hmm. Yeah.
Ooh. I sing about love all day long Yeah, with love you can't go wrong I sing about the days and all of the nights As long as you sing you will never fight If you've got troubles then you ought to sing A little relief it's gonna bring We'll sing it up high and send it out Sing a little whisper, sing a shout Oh, sing about, sing about, sing about, sing about everything Yeah, sing about, sing about, sing about, sing about, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm,
La la la la la la la la la. Ooh wee ooh wee ooh wee wee ooh wee ooh wee ooh wee ah. La la la la la la la. Yeah, That was Dog on Fleas right here on The Children's Hour. Today we've been learning about the sun with folks from the Sunspot Solar Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, a telescope that is soon to be demolished. But we have pictures and more posted at Children'sHour.org, including our learning guide for this episode. Just look for the sun. I'm Katie Stone, you've
been listening to the Children's Hour, we're gonna go out with one more. This is Nicodemus, we'll catch you next time. sky that the light should strike thy face and give light. Yeah, the day could die, sunshine,
yeah, that's my vibe. Some children, that's my tribe, yeah That's my vibe, yeah That's my vibe, I'm ready for the well if rain should come down and change this one cloud I'm game to run wild and watch my whole style Work my flows out, just go the whole mile and run the whole route Insane, I vote the race out, sprint to the finish I dream without doubt, scream like a dentist is working my mouth When it's time to release the truth and speak out out
loud Telling the world what we vow, belief in my power, increase the amount I'm here to clean house, roll the shades up And let the sun in, it's time to raise up New day, new guy, so shit Sunshine, that's my vibe Get fried, hands high Some children, that's my tribe Day, that's my vibe No lie, that's my vibe Sunshine, that's my vibe Some children, that's my tribe My mind It's like a fine wine It get better and better with more time Get smarter, sharper, more wise,
we fine I'm a child of sunshine Yeah, and each day my mind rise I gaze in her eyes, her praise give me light It runs through my veins, she's raising me right I stay strong the longer more rhymes Great minds think alike in great times Bunch of different places along with great vine A good try Linears make the lines, it's all tied Up and tight like my heart Tops get pops, don't stop, I'm gonna shine Light up, light up, flame it, burn bright High ya, high
ya, limitless sky Move day, move light Sunshine, that's my vibe Get bright, hands high Some children, that's my tribe New day, that's my vibe New life, that's my vibe So children, that's my tribe. Out of stars, out of lines. We are the one mind. We are in the same vibe. We are the same tribe. We vet the same signs. We check the same lives. We step the same time. Yes, the same tribe. Out stars, out of lines. We are the one mind. We are in the same vibe.
We are in the same tribe. We vet the same signs. We check the same lives. We step the same time. Yes, the same tribe. Yeah, no day, no night. Sunshine, that's my vibe. Get right, get right, hands high. So children, that's my tribe. Yeah, dang, that's my vibe.
Children love the sun, it's my tribe Groove, we about to prove When you forward move, you can reach the moon Every one of you, yeah you or you Step on it too, raise fingers too That's peace to you, and you or you And him or her, the entire room The entire world, we on the move Like the would shine, cause that's the vibe Tonight's the night, and the time is right The vibe is tight, today's the day In a major way, our favorite game We came to play, call
a song a dance It's a dance to sing, to the music like the universe is answering It's been going on forever, it's a tribal thing It's where, era after era, a survival break New day, new life, sunshine That's my vibe, get ride Hands high, some children That's my tribe We met the same signs, we checked the same lies, we stepped the same time, yes the same time. All the stars are alive. We bet the same time, we check the same lies We at the same time, yes the same tribe
Children's Hour is produced by The Children's Hour, Inc., a New Mexico non-profit. You can find photos, playlists, learning guides, and activities for every episode at Children'sHour.org. This episode of The Children's Hour was written and produced by me, Katie Stone, with production help from Gus DeFoya, Sara Gabrielli, Daniel Lentz, and Mackenzie Gronke. Monica Ortiz-Arribe provided our live engineering at Sunspot Solar Observatory. Chad Shear gave us live engineering at Outpost.
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