9 tips for viewing the 2018 Geminid meteor shower
…a time. Does your viewing party include someone with an early bedtime? Here’s the good news: The Geminid meteor shower is famous for producing good meteor activity in the evening…
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How to find Mars in the sky
July 27, 2018 By Amy Sayle You may have noticed that Mars has been in the news a lot lately: It’s at opposition! There’s a big dust storm! There’s a body of liquid…
Morehead brings free science program to Gates County
…Morehead Planetarium and Science Center annually, including 85,000 schoolchildren. Media Contact for Gates County: Tammy Boone, 252-357-1113, ext. 23 Media Contact for Saunders Family: Benjamin Saunders, Jr., 704-340-2191 Media Contact for Morehead Planetarium and…
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 to host Yoga Under the Stars
December 14, 2017 CHAPEL HILL – This January, Morehead and the Carrboro Yoga Company present: Yoga Under the Stars. Start the New Year mindfully in Morehead’s GlaxoSmithKline Full Dome Theater, beneath an array…
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,…
Morehead partners with GSK to bring hands-on science to Boys and Girls Clubs throughout North Carolina
…Girls Club to help inspire a new generation of scientists. “Morehead Planetarium is pleased to partner with the ‘Science On Your Street’ initiative, which will have a statewide impact on…
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…
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
…into a national hero who has since attracted generations of followers. During his career, Lovell accumulated over 7,000 flight hours, including 4,500 in jet aircraft, 713 in space and 107…