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March 20 - First day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere
March 21 at 1:43 UTC - Full moon - Super "worm" moon
In our evening sky, Mars is in the west at sunset near the Pleiades
On December 16th, Comet 64P Wirtanen will pass the Earth at 12 million kilometers away. It may become as bright as 3rd magnitude. The diffuse coma and a nearly full Moon will make observations…
The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology and Ohio State Newark are proud to announce the grand opening of the newest exhibit at The Works, a SciDome planetarium, on Saturday, June…
A group of astronomy and physics students recently got a firsthand look at the Green Bank Telescope, the world’s largest steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia.
Located away…
Around 9pm when the sky is finally getting darker look toward the west. You will see an incredibly bright spot up in the sky which is the planet Venus. As the sky fades you…
At their April 10 meeting, the Ohio State University Board of Trustees in recognition of contributions to the College of Arts and Sciences by Gerald and Ann Newsom and David and Sheryl Price,…
Wayne M. Schlingman, the new director of the Ohio State Planetarium, has a room with an enviable view with seats he will never have trouble filling. And he's ready to start taking people out of…
After nearly two weeks of integration and testing, our new Spitz SciDome XD digial projector system was fired up and achieved "first light" inside the newly renovated OSU Planetarium.
This…
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