Experience the NEW Morehead during UNC's Weeks of Welcome. Step into the fulldome for a great experience under the stars! Catch one of our most popular shows: "Carolina Skies" as students will be immersed in an experience like no other! Purchase Tickets for Under the Stars with Morehead: Schedule 4:00 PM—6 PM Explore Morehead (Exhibits Read more...
Due to expected rainy weather conditions, this event has been postponed. Please join us for December's Skywatching: Geminid Meteor Showers. Morehead Planetarium and Science Center invites you to a free skywatching event at Little River Regional Park (weather permitting). Morehead educators and CHAOS members (from Chapel Hill Astronomical & Observational Society) will bring telescopes and Read more...
One of the best meteor showers of the year – the Geminid meteor shower — will next peak on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and Little River Regional park will host a free skywatching event. Learn about meteors and more! For example, did you know meteors, sometimes misleadingly called “shooting stars,” Read more...
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center invites you to a free skywatching event at Little River Regional Park (weather permitting).
This event has been canceled due to weather. Morehead Planetarium and Science Center invites you to a free skywatching event at Dix Park in downtown Raleigh (weather permitting). Come see Venus, Mars, and other celestial delights! Morehead educators and Raleigh Astronomy Club will bring telescopes and guide you through fun observations of stars, planets, moons, Read more...
Join staff and volunteers from the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center and Raleigh Astronomy Club in viewing the Perseid Meteor Shower at Dix Park on its peak night! All you need to view meteors are your eyes, but we’ll also have telescopes for you to view other celestial delights, such as double stars, star clusters, Read more...
For this month we will be joined by a delegation of high school students from Japan as a part of Nagoya University MIRAI Global Science Campus program.