The arrival of winter: Fly me to the Moon
…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,…
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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!
…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
…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…
When the Moon covers the Sun
…Credit: NASA JPL “What’s Up for May 2012” This path of totality clips a small portion of the southwest corner of North Carolina. Depending on where in North Carolina you live,…
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…
An evening with Astronaut James Lovell, Apollo 13 commander
January 31, 2017 Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is proud to present an evening with American Hero and Astronaut James Lovell as part of the 2017 North Carolina Science Festival. Thursday,…