Virtual Astronomy Days at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Jan 25-31

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is presenting a free week-long program, Virtual Astronomy Days, from Monday, January 25th, to Sunday, January 31st, 2021. 

Following are the events that have been announced, but keep on checking the program page for Astronomy Days for updates and go there to see descriptions of each of these programs.

Monday, January 25th

• 12 p.m.: Planet Building 101
• 3 pm.: Spiral Graph Video Premiere
• 6 p.m.: Carolina Skies
• 7 p.m.: Moon Zoom

Tuesday, January 26th

• 12 p.m.: No Shadow of a Doubt: The Einstein Test at the Eclipse of 1919 and After
• 2 p.m.: Getting Here to There

Wednesday, January 27th

• 10 a.m.: Return to the Moon
• 12 p.m.: InSign Mission Update — two years on Mars
• 3 p.m.: Constellation Yoga: The Orion Story

Thursday, January 28th

• 12 p.m.: Why Should We Explore Space
• 3 p.m.: Constellation Yoga: Orion and Friends

Friday, January 29th

• 9 a.m.: Deadly Spheres: The Top 10 Ways the Solar System Can Kill, Maim, or Really Really Hurt You
• 10 a.m.: Jupiter — The Planetary Wrecking ball
• 11 a.m.: NASA’s New Mars Robot Rover, Perseverance
• 12 p.m.: The Artemis Program: The First Woman and Next Man on the Moon
• 1 p.m.: Curiosity Mission and Update on Mars Exploration
• 2 p.m.: Wild Weather Across the Solar System
• 3p.m.: Design-a-Planet Kids’ Craft
• 4 p.m.: Live Chat with an Astronomer
• 5 p.m.: Europa Clipper: NASA’s Next Mission to Jupiter
• 6 p.m.: Museum Movie Night: The Empire Strikes Back

Saturday, January 30th

• 9 a.m.: Galaxies Everywhere: The Hubble Deep Field
• 10 a.m.: Seeing the Whole Universe, Are We Alone?
• 12 p.m.: Sky Stories for Children
• 1 p.m.: SETI: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
• 2 p.m.: The Value of Moon Samples
• 3 p.m.: The Giant Planets in OpenSpace
• 4 p.m.: Being a TV Station Scientist
• 5 p.m.: Steampunk Meets Spacecraft: Hybrid Automation Rover — Venus
• 8 p.m.: A Night Zooming To the Stars at the Dark Sky Observatory

Sunday, January 31st

• 9 a.m.: OSIRIS-REx — Success at Asteroid Bennu
• 10 a.m.: Coding for Astronomy
• 11 a.m.: The Science of the Webb Space Telescope
• 12 p.m.: The Fermi Paradox: Why ET Can’t Phone Home
• 1 p.m.: The Terrestrial Planets: Impacts and Origins
• 2 p.m.: NASA OSIRIS-REx Mission: Insights into the Origin of Volatiles Through the Analysis of Samples from Asteroid 101955 Bennu

Upcoming Events in the Triangle -- both virtual and in-person

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Friday, January 29, 2021

Saturday, January 30, 2021