Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…roughly an average of a meteor per minute for those watching under a clear dark sky in the hours before dawn on that date. 3) Check the weather forecast. If…
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How to find Mars in the sky
…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…
Never agree to marry the northern lights (and other life lessons from Valentine sky stories)
…10, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2018, 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m. These shows are for adults only, please (older teens welcome). We recommend buying tickets online in advance. All…
Carolina Skies: Valentine’s edition 2018
…8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 10th, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 14th, 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 14th, 8:30 p.m. Tickets are buy one get one free on Friday, February 9th for students…
The arrival of winter: Fly me to the Moon
…sunset a few minutes after five p.m. Look for the crescent Moon low in the direction of sunset. Imagine what it would have been like to share that first human…
Tips for viewing the 2017 Geminid meteor shower
…to stay out at least 20 minutes. Your eyes need time to adjust to the dark, and the meteors can come in clumps, with none for several minutes at a…
Morehead hosts star-studded Jupiter Ball
…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,…
Can’t get eclipse glasses? You can still view the eclipse!
…excellent 1-minute NASA video shows how to make a viewer using a cereal box, white paper, tape, scissors, and aluminum foil: https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/how-make-pinhole-projector-view-solar-eclipse You can also find written directions with photos at…
10 things for North Carolinians to know about the eclipse
…the far southwestern corner get totality – 100% of the Sun will be covered for up to about 2 minutes 40 seconds for those on the center line of the…
Finding the winter hexagon (and maybe your birthday star)
…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…