What is night?

Night is when the sky gets dark and we usually go to sleep.

Imagine you have a big flashlight that shines really bright. That’s like the sun, it lights up everything around us during the day. But sometimes, the sun moves away from our view, just like when you put your flashlight under a blanket and it stops shining on your face. When the sun is gone, we get night.

• The sky gets dark, like when you turn off all the lights in your room.
• You can see stars, which are like tiny lights far away in space, just like how you might see little glowing toys from across the room.
• Many animals wake up, and some people go to sleep.

It’s like playing a game of hide-and-seek with the sun. When it hides behind the Earth, we get night, and that's when the world takes a little rest.