The bright point of light in the west after sunset is Venus
…before sunrise. (Unless you are the fictional character Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code, in which case apparently you can see Venus flung right out of its…
…before sunrise. (Unless you are the fictional character Robert Langdon in Dan Brown’s book The Da Vinci Code, in which case apparently you can see Venus flung right out of its…
…use, you might: discover how scientists find planets around distant stars (“exoplanets”), identify stars with exoplanets, make a star wheel, probe an icy world, consider the extreme conditions life can thrive in, or imagine an alien. The Statewide…
…moon. This is a misleading term because it suggests the Moon will look blue this Wednesday morning. Not likely. “Blue moon” has more than one definition, but nowadays it commonly refers…
…against the Soviets, none of them did. Their Morehead training ensured that the astronauts knew star positions to use as guideposts to point the way home. December 21, 2017 is forty-nine…
…onto the ground, wall, or an index card. IMPORTANT: Pinhole projection does NOT mean looking at the Sun through a pinhole! It’s an indirect method that you use with your…
…corner of our state also gets a total solar eclipse because it lies in the “path of totality,” a roughly 70-wide-path cutting across the continent from Oregon to South Carolina. NASA’s 2017…
…been provided with a kit full of astronomy activities on the theme of “Star Light, Star Bright.” Depending on which activities your Star Party host decides to use, you might…