At 9 pm you will find Jupiter and Saturn in the south. You can confirm that you have found these planets with the twinkle test. Generall ...
Today in 2001, NASA launched Kodiak Star carrying four satellites into Earth orbit. This was the first launch from the Kodiak Launch Com ...
Last quarter moon occurs today at 8:57 pm. You can find the Moon rising in the northeast at 11:30 pm. The line that separates day and ni ...
Today in 1956, Air Force test pilot Captain Milburn Apt flew the Bell Aircraft Company's rocket-powered X-2 at Mach 3.2. This event mark ...
Today in St. Louis, Missouri, we have equal hours of day and night as the Sun rises at 6:51 and it sets at 18:51. This day is called equ ...
Today in 1974, researchers F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina published their findings that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were damaging t ...
The bright variable star Algol can be found in the northeast after 8:30 pm. Algol is the second brightest star in Perseus which appears ...
Today in 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter began a planned orbital insertion maneuver around Mars. The orbiter went out of radio contact wh ...
The 2021 fall equinox occurs today at 2:14 pm. This occurs when the Sun crosses Earth's celestial equator at its descending node. After ...
Today in 1974, the Mariner 10 probe made its second flyby of the planet Mercury. Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft sent to study Mercu ...
Full moon for September occurs today at 6:55 pm. You can find the Moon rising in the east as the Sun sets in the west. September's full ...
Tonight at 7:30 pm, three planets will be visible to the unaided eye. In the west, you will find Venus. In the southeast, you will find ...
Today in 1976, NASA publicly unveiled the first Space Shuttle prototype during a ceremony in Palmdale, California. Originally to be name ...
Fright Fest will Kickoff on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. The freaks will enter the park for the first Freaks Unleashed ceremony in two years at 7 p.m.
The symphony is offering two free tickets to all healthcare workers and first responders for the Oct. 9-10 and Oct. 15-16 concerts.
On this date in 1969, Space Shuttle Atlantis began it STS-79 mission docking with the Russian space station Mir. This was the 79th Space ...
Today in 1968, the Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return to Earth. Zo ...
Today, Neptune reached opposition. Opposition occurs when an astronomical body is nearest the point directly opposite the Sun. This is w ...
Tomorrow, Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation. When Mercury is at greatest elongation, that means it is at its greatest separati ...
Today in 1912, Horace Welcome Babcock was born. Babcock was an American astronomer who invented a number of astronomical instruments, in ...
Today in 1985, NASA's International Cometary Explorer (ICE) made its programmed flyby of Comet Giacobini-Zinner. ICE was the first space ...
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Today in 1980, NASA launched the GOES-4 weather satellite via a Delta rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. GOES-4 was the first geos ...
Our ancestors discovered the solar system by watching the behaviors of the Sun, Moon and planets. This month offers a good view of these ...
Today in 1914, James A. Van Allen was born. An American astrophysicist, his experiment carried aboard the first American satellite estab ...
New Moon occurs today. The new lunar cycle is lunation 1221. This is the last new moon of Summer 2021.
Today in 1977, Voyager 1 launched carrying the Golden Record from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. After visiting ...
Those traveling to dark locations can be on the lookout for Zodiacal Light. As we approach the Autumnal Equinox, about one hour before s ...
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Today in 1976, NASA's Viking 2 lander successfully landed on the surface of Mars. From its high-inclination orbit, the Viking 2 orbiter ...
Today in 2006, NASA selected Lockheed Martin as the prime contractor to design, develop, and build Orion, America's spacecraft for a new ...
Today in 1963, the Gemini Project Office (GPO) reported that it was investigating the use of a parasail and landing rocket system to ena ...
Today in 1965, Gemini V returned to Earth following an 8-day orbital mission. Due to a programming error in their navigational computer, ...
Tonight at 8:00 pm, you can find three planets in the sky. To the west, you will find Venus and to the southeast you will find Jupiter a ...
In 2003, the private spacecraft SpaceShipOne, built by Scaled Composites, performed its second glide test flight. SpaceShipOne would go ...
Tonight at 9 pm, you can find the fifth brightest star we see at night directly overhead. This star is named Vega which will be the Nort ...
In 1965, President Johnson announced the Department of Defense's $1.5 billion Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). Publicly, this was an Ai ...
At 9 pm you will find two bright and familiar patterns of stars to the north. In the northwest you will see the Big Dipper and to the no ...
Today is full moon for the month of August. This will be the third of four full moons this summer which means it is a blue moon. Current ...