No, a black supermoon won’t rise in your sky tonight
…and most months are 30 or 31 days long. When the Moon is full twice in the same calendar month, you’ll sometimes hear “blue moon” used to refer to that second full…
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Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…all portions of the sky. 7) Put bright devices away. Resist the urge to use your phone, tablet, or other lighted devices. In addition to pulling your attention away from…
How to find Mars in the sky
…curious to see Mars in the night sky, this is what to look for: 1) Mars is currently very bright. Now (July 27, 2018) and for a number of weeks to come, Mars…
The bright point of light in the west after sunset is Venus
…lives in the east. According to the version of the story related in E. C. Krupp’s book Beyond the Blue Horizon, the Moon likes to visit his western wife, Puikani, in…
Never agree to marry the northern lights (and other life lessons from Valentine sky stories)
…10, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2018, 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m. These shows are for adults only, please (older teens welcome). We recommend buying tickets online in advance. All…
“Super blood moon?”
…moon. This is a misleading term because it suggests the Moon will look blue this Wednesday morning. Not likely. “Blue moon” has more than one definition, but nowadays it commonly refers…
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
…are limited; register online in advance (a pair of eclipse glasses is included with your ticket). We’ll also have free activities, including a live stream of the eclipse and hands-on educational activities….
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…