Experimental Musings

On Tuesday, October 30, NASA announced that the Kepler space telescope had run out of fuel and would be retired. The mission’s story dates back 35 years, even before we knew for sure that planets existed around other stars (now called exoplanets).

Where were you on June 18, 1983? Perhaps it doesn’t stick out as a pivotal moment for you, but the activities that day changed the course of history by expanding the perception of what females could and couldn’t do in the universe.

It took awhile for technology to catch up with astronomers’ speculations, but in the mid-1990s we were finally able to detect evidence of planets orbiting other stars.

There's been some talk about meteorites recently so we thought we'd have our Museum astronomer explain a little about them. 

It’s interesting to hear guests, the media, and friends on social media talk about the supposed super blue blood moon happening this week. Let’s look past the hype and discuss what we can really expect to see.