Skywatching at home: See the space station fly (April 6, 2020)
…when it flies over the eastern United States. (Kelly reminds you that when you go outdoors during this time of social distancing, stay at least six feet away from others.)…
…when it flies over the eastern United States. (Kelly reminds you that when you go outdoors during this time of social distancing, stay at least six feet away from others.)…
…manned spaceflight. Or maybe you thought of Ada Lovelace: the first programmer and computer engineer. It’s also possible you couldn’t think of any female engineers. However, history is full of…
December 13, 2019 Morehead Planetarium & Science Center to unveil new website in January 2020 CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Morehead Planetarium & Science Center, the leading public science education organization in North…
…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…
…the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program to promote informal science education across the United States through research, innovative projects, and conferences. Each year National Science Foundation allocates 93% of its…
…eclipse the Moon will be especially well placed – high in the sky – for the eastern United States. We’ll be able to see all phases of the eclipse, including…
…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…
…a given spot. The last time we had a total solar eclipse… …anywhere in the United States was July 11, 1991 (part of Hawaii). …in the 48 states was February 26, 1979 (parts of…
…Although most of you reading this blog will miss this weekend’s solar eclipse, be sure to mark your calendar for the next one, on August 21, 2017. On that day, the United States…
…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…