Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…Monday morning. Here’s a checklist for getting the most out of your Perseids viewing this year: 1) Know what you’re looking for. Meteors look like streaks of light in the…
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How to find Mars in the sky
…is called the Red Planet for a reason. It will not look white to your eyes. 3) Mars will probably be shining steadily. Whereas stars twinkle. Don’t mistake Mars for its rival, the star…
Never agree to marry the northern lights (and other life lessons from Valentine sky stories)
…love stories from around the world that are playing out in the sky each night. Not only do these stories provide an excellent excuse for learning to identify stars and constellations,…
Carolina Skies: Valentine’s edition 2018
January 8, 2018 CHAPEL HILL, NC – Join us in the GSK Fulldome Theater for a special Valentine’s edition of Carolina Skies. Our most popular show gets a date night twist with…
The arrival of winter: Fly me to the Moon
…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…
Morehead hosts star-studded Jupiter Ball
…Carolina State University. Dr. Stephani Page– biophysicist/ biochemist in the department of pharmacology at UNC Chapel Hill, and creator of #BLACKandSTEM, a community of black STEM professionals and students. For…
Can’t get eclipse glasses? You can still view the eclipse!
…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…
10 things for North Carolinians to know about the eclipse
…be easier for you to drive to the path of totality in South Carolina. Traffic on August 21st will probably be . . . interesting. Consider if there’s somewhere you can stay…
Finding the winter hexagon (and maybe your birthday star)
…bright stars in a row that form Orion’s belt. Orion’s shoulder is represented by the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, and Rigel marks a foot or knee. Starting with Rigel, you…
An evening with Astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander
…his wisdom and stories at a one-time event at Memorial Hall. Capt. James Lovell stoically articulated the five-word message, “Houston, we have a problem,” which quickly became part of the…