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O-H-I-O on sunset-lit dome
March 21, 2019

March 21, 2019 - Ohio Skylites

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

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Comet 46P's coma extends more than 45 arcminutes in this picture taken on November 26, 2018. Gerald Rhemann (Namibia)
December 7, 2018

Comet 64P Wirtanen

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…

SciDome at the Works Museum in Newark
May 22, 2018

SciDome Planetarium Grand Opening at The Works

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…

Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia
May 22, 2018

Students visit Green Bank Telescope from OSU Astronomy and Physics

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…

Star party at Grand Canyon National Park. Author: Grand Canyon National Park
April 30, 2018

May 1, 2018 - Ohio Skylites

 

In the evening:

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…

An artists depiction of the Milky Way in Capitol Reef National Park. It is in the style of the 20s and 30s. The art was drawn by Tyler Nordgren
August 26, 2016

Happy 100th Birthday to the National Park Service

100 years ago in 1916, congress formed the National Park Service within the U.S. Department of the Interior to administer the 39 national parks and monuments that had been designated starting in the…
OSU Planetarium in 1968 with Prof. Arne Slettebak
April 16, 2015

The OSU Planetarium has a New Name!

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,…

July 30, 2014

Welcome Our New Planetarium Director, Dr. Wayne Schlingman.

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…

September 6, 2013

Spitz SciDome XD Projector has First Light!

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…