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- Aug 10, 2015
- 3 min
Find Your Place
The 2015 Perseid meteor shower peaks Wednesday night (August 12) and into Thursday morning (August 13). Look up on either side of the...
- Jul 7, 2015
- 1 min
Timestamp: New Horizons at Pluto
Let’s photo bomb Pluto and leave no trace. Take pictures all week during Pluto Time. Image courtesy of NASA. Anywhere in South Bend, take...
- Jun 30, 2015
- 3 min
Pluto Time
The New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its moons on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at 7:49 a.m. EDT. For much of the day the...
- Jun 4, 2015
- 1 min
Moon Shadowed Sept. 27
On Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, a total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon glides through two shadows cast by the earth--a faint penumbral...
- May 9, 2015
- 1 min
Transit of Mercury, 9 May 2016
The countdown has begun. On May 9, 2016, start your Monday morning with a transit of Mercury, when the innermost planet is visible...
- Apr 2, 2015
- 2 min
Space Station Buzzes by Planets
April 6 The ISS rises in the the southwest around 8:46 p.m. EDT. It peaks in brightness (mag.= -3.4) around 8:49:20 p.m., right when...
- Apr 1, 2015
- 2 min
Total Lunar Eclipses in 2015
An illustrated video from California Academy of Science explains why eclipses occur and what causes that reddish hue (spoiler alert:...
- Feb 26, 2015
- 2 min
Paper Plate "Man on the Moon"
Andy Bowers from Bristol, TN, created the Man in the Moon paper plate activity for his very young students. He describes below how to...