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…
…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…
…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…
…to help people do more, feel better, live longer. For further information please visit www.gsk.com About Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is a unit of the…
…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,…
…are “live” star shows led by a Morehead educator. Come learn about celestial objects, myths and legends or current astronomical events of interest. Click here for more info about Carolina…
…Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders (not pictured above, but who also trained at Morehead) made it around the Moon, saw its far side, and returned home safely on December 27,…
…to visit Morehead. Every year, the event honors one prominent figure in STEM education with the Jupiter Award. This year, Morehead will proudly present the Jupiter Award to Ann Goodnight,…
…Morehead’s Carolinas Solar Eclipse Party webpage. The direct link is http://moreheadplanetarium.org/sites/default/files/images/EclipseCerealBoxViewer.pdf But it can be even easier than that. You can also do pinhole projection with: 2. A colander. The holes can act like pinhole…
…Moon’s shadow can experience the eclipse. For most of North Carolina, this will be only a partial solar eclipse, with the Moon never appearing to fully cover the Sun. The far southwestern…
…years old, you might think of Sirius as your birthday star because the light we see left that star around the time you were born. If you’re 11, Procyon is your birthday…