Event: Summer Stargazing Nights - Seafood Festival - CLOSED
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Aug 7, 2026 - CLOSED
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Summer Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will keep the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre closed. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:51:38 EDT
Celebration of Space - August 7, 2026
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
This coming Wednesday, August 12, 2026, a fabulous partial solar eclipse will occur over the Northeast US. Over Frosty Drew, the eclipse will max out at 13.48% of the Sun eclipsed by the Moon. Though not as spectacular as the solar eclipse in 2024, 2021, o...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:14:44 EDT
SpaceX Junk Hits the Moon. Not a Good Sign
Reported by Universe Today
The spent upper stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has struck the Moon, illustrating the hazard posed by debris in cislunar space. This problem will increase as launches to orbit and to the Moon become more common in the coming years....
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:43 +0000
2026 IGARSS Hyperwall Schedule
Reported by NASA
IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 10 3:00 PM Technology Enabling the Future of Earth ScienceMike Seablom3:15 PM Discovery Earth: New Missions �...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:57 +0000
Astronomers Find a New Object from the Early Universe Using Webb Data
Reported by Universe Today
Homer Dávila Gutierrez, director of SKYCR.ORG, has identified a gravitational arc candidate in the galaxy cluster MACS J0308.9+2645 from public data from the James Webb Space Telescope. The object had not been previously reported and is located at a photo...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:10 +0000
NASA’s IXPE Studies Magnetar
Reported by NASA
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have cap...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:27 +0000