How to find Mars in the sky
…bit as a result of their orbits around the Sun, and Mars is relatively close right now (but still more than 35 million miles away). Two of us from Morehead (one…
…bit as a result of their orbits around the Sun, and Mars is relatively close right now (but still more than 35 million miles away). Two of us from Morehead (one…
…2018. Then the planet will pass in front of the Sun and be lost for a while in the solar glare before re-emerging in mid-November into the eastern morning twilight….
…they offer intriguing life lessons. Bring a date or a friend or just yourself, and find out: …why it’s an even worse idea than you might have thought to have…
…ancient legends of love in the night sky. There will be strange, fantastical, romantic, and tragic tales that shaped the way we see the constellations, and might just change the…
…1968. The astronauts could turn down the mission, being told that their odds of survival were about 50-50, but knowing how important the mission was to winning the Space Race…
…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…
…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…
April 3, 2017 CHAPEL HILL, NC – “#TakeUpSpace” is Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s $5.2 million building project to reimagine the North Carolina icon as a modern-day, technology-advanced science hub,…
…can play connect-the-dots counterclockwise through the sky to find the six bright stars that form the hexagon: Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran. Winter Hexagon. (Credit: Stellarium) You might see…
…April 6 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall Tickets go on sale Monday, March 6, 10 a.m. Between 1959 and 1975, Morehead was called to serve not only the people of…