Event: Summer Stargazing Nights - CLOSED
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Aug 14, 2026 - CLOSED
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Summer Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will keep the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre closed due to thunderstorms. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:52:39 EDT
Solar Eclipse of 2026
From Gallery: Solar Eclipse of 2026
On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, a partial solar eclipse occurred over Southern New England. At Frosty Drew Observatory we hosted an event and cataloged the entire eclipse, resulting in over 2,000 images of the eclipse. The eclipse itself started over Frosty...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:35:49 EDT
Celebration of Space - August 14, 2026
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
On Saturday and Sunday evening, August 15-16, 2026, Venus and the thin crescent Moon will be putting on a show for sky watchers as they enter conjunction over the eastern horizon just after sunset. Conjunctions occur when two objects of different distances...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:34:13 EDT
NASA Competition Invites Students to Help Imagine a Future Enabled by Lunar Technologies
Reported by NASA
NASA is asking U.S.-based collegiate teams to submit bold, original concepts to the 2027 edition of a student challenge focused on aerospace innovation that could help the agency envision a future on the Moon shaped by new technolo...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:00 +0000
NASA Announces MAX POWER: America’s Newest Aerospace Expo, Airshow
Reported by NASA
In honor of America’s historic 250th anniversary, NASA announced on Friday MAX POWER, a public exposition of American air and space innovation, Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, on and near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The multi-day, family-friendly ...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:44 +0000
Another First for the JWST: It Detects Three Supermassive Black Holes in the Same Galaxy
Reported by Universe Today
Astronomers working with the JWST have found a galaxy only 1.3 billion years after the Big Bang that contains three black holes. Two are close to the galaxy's center and will merge soon. The third is more distant, and is expected to merge much later. The d...
- By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
- On: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:52 +0000