Event: Stargazing Nights
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Apr 17, 2026 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Observatory Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre at 8:00 offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:28:49 EDT
Comet R3 PanSTARRS at Perihelion
Reported by Universe Today
We’re one comet down, and one to go for spring season 2026. We recently wrote about prospects for sungrazer C/2026 A1 MAPS and comet C/2025 R3 Pan-STARRS in April 2026. While the bad news is, Comet A1 MAPS disintegrated like so many sungrazers before it ...
- By: David Dickinson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/david-dickinson)
- On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:10 +0000
Volunteers Discover Rare Space Weather Events Using Their Ears
Reported by NASA
Scientists are working to understand exactly how these waves behave, and the team behind NASA’s Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science project approaches this in a unique way: they compare the Earth’s magnetic field to a gi...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:04 +0000
NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory Maps Interstellar Ice in Milky Way
Reported by NASA
An observation made by NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) shows the chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:14 +0000
To Survive Deep Space, Astronauts May Owe a Debt to Microscopic Worms
Reported by Universe Today
Living long-term on the Moon means surviving the devastating toll that deep space takes on a human body. Astronauts in low gravity environments suffer muscle and bone loss, vision-altering fluid shifts, and heavy radiation exposure - all of which are incre...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:57 +0000
Watch This Dark Volcanic Ash Creep Across the Red Planet
Reported by Universe Today
Mars is well known as a static, frozen desert. We tend to think of the only thing changing on the surface of the Red Planet is due to the occasional dust storm. But if you look closely - and are willing to wait decades - you’ll see the planet is very muc...
- By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
- On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:55 +0000