Skywatching at home: See the space station fly (April 6, 2020)
…NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan. For email or text alerts about future opportunities to see the International Space Station fly over, sign up at NASA’s Spot the…
…NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan. For email or text alerts about future opportunities to see the International Space Station fly over, sign up at NASA’s Spot the…
…Morehead will adapt three of its educational planetarium shows for use at ECSU’s recently reopened Khan Planetarium: Earth, Moon and Sun; Solar System Odyssey; and Take Flight. Each show is aligned with elementary and middle…
…view, cutting down on the total number you’ll see. You can still enjoy a meteor viewing outing, as long as you adjust your expectations. Credit: Matt Lochansky Viewing tips: Choose…
…all portions of the sky. 7) Put bright devices away. Resist the urge to use your phone, tablet, or other lighted devices. In addition to pulling your attention away from…
…curious to see Mars in the night sky, this is what to look for: 1) Mars is currently very bright. Now (July 27, 2018) and for a number of weeks to come, Mars…
…Senior Director of Community Relations at Cary, NC-based analytics company SAS Institute Inc., for her continued support of STEM education. Goodnight serves on a number of boards committed to education,…
…consider these other methods, too. A number of people have marveled to us about their memories of partial solar eclipses from years past where they were walking under trees and…
…too far away. Its light takes about 800 years to reach us. So we see the star as it looked when the light left it eight hundred years ago, or…
…into a national hero who has since attracted generations of followers. During his career, Lovell accumulated over 7,000 flight hours, including 4,500 in jet aircraft, 713 in space and 107…