when i was little my dad told me that stars were people who had died and gone to heaven. i would always go outside and pick out my g-ma and g-pa and cousins. when i was in the 4th grade my teacher told me that stars were big balls of gas. i went home cried, and called my dad a liar. but i sitll believe in and im in the 11th grade.
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- i used to believe that stars were people in heaven and the moon was god— Jessica
- I used to think that the moon and stars were holes in the sky that you could see heaven through.Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that stars were holes in the sky & we could see heaven shining through— June
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon