Field Trip & Reservation FAQs
…NC Dept. of Revenue issued Tax Exemption Certificate Number (6 digits, no dashes or spaces) for verification. If your tax exempt number is valid, sales tax can be removed from…
…NC Dept. of Revenue issued Tax Exemption Certificate Number (6 digits, no dashes or spaces) for verification. If your tax exempt number is valid, sales tax can be removed from…
Ada Lovelace Lovelace wrote the first computer program ever published — instructions for the Analytical Engine, a computer proposed by inventor Charles Babbage, to generate Bernoulli numbers. Margaret Hamilton Hamilton…
…comes as the country is expected to see STEM-related jobs grow 50% faster than non-STEM jobs over the next decade (US Bureau of Labor Statistics). The vast majority of these…
…families can attempt at home. To build their own Galilean cannon, participants will need a large open space, basketball, tennis ball and other balls of varying sizes. Families will expand…
…Sun in the sky. This means a full moon is in the sky the entire night, rising around sunset and setting around sunrise. But is full moon a good time…
…of the Sun is called the ecliptic, and it passes through the zodiac constellations. You might reasonably assume that on the date of your birthday, the Sun appears to lie…
…the stars? Our solar system consists of only ONE star—the Sun—and everything the Sun holds in with its gravity, including the planets you visited on your walk, dwarf planets like…
…the Pleiades are represented on Durham’s city flag. This star cluster (which has a number of other names, including the “seven sisters”) is located in the constellation Taurus the Bull,…
…these meteors is due to something quite far away—the comet called Thatcher. When this comet orbits the Sun it sheds debris, and every year Earth plows through some of those…
…wish, check the box for “Use current location as default,” and the next time you open Stellarium, it’ll show you the sky from that location. Click the X at the…