Event: Summer Stargazing Nights - CLOSED
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Jun 26, 2026 - CLOSED
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Summer Stargazing Nights! Tonight we keep open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre closed. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:13:12 EDT
Celebration of Space - June 19, 2026
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
On Sunday, June 21, 2026 at 4:25 am ET, Earth will arrive at the point in its orbit where the Northern Hemisphere is at maximum tilt (23.4°) towards the Sun. This is the Summer Solstice and marks the first day of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphe...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:30:27 EDT
Astronomers Catch the Glowing Shockwave of a Galaxy on the Move
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy so unlike anything in the textbooks that the researcher who found it, after 25 years studying these objects, says he has never seen its equal. Named RAD-BAARG, it is falling supersonically into a distant cluster of gala...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:10 +0000
Asteroid Day to be observed worldwide on June 30
Reported by Space | EarthSky
The annual Asteroid Day program is in Luxembourg on June 26 and 27, 2026. That's ahead of the internationally recognised Asteroid Day June 30.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:05 +0000
How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon
Reported by Universe Today
When Artemis II swept around the far side of the Moon this April, carrying the first humans beyond Earth orbit in more than fifty years, NASA had prepared its four astronauts for something more than flying the spacecraft. It had trained them to see. Reid W...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:02 +0000
Voyager 1 to reach 1 light-day from Earth on November 18
Reported by Space | EarthSky
NASA said on June 17, 2026, that Voyager 1 will reach 1 light-day from Earth soon. It estimates the spacecraft will reach that mark on November 18, 2026.
The post Voyager 1 to reach 1 light-day from Earth on November 18 first appeared on EarthSky....
- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:00 +0000