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Event: Stargazing Nights

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

Quality Assessment Report Evaluates Tomorrow.io Precipitation Radar Data

Reported by NASA

The report adds to the growing documentation on commercial data’s contributions to Earth science research and applications....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:06 +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