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We'll be open tonight, Wed. 4/30, 8:30 - 9:45 pm!

Wed. Oct. 25: The observatory will be closed tonight due to clouds. We'll try to run our Halloween event tomorrow instead, 7:00 - 8:30 pm.

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Zoozve, my beloved

Wed. Apr. 17: Another cloudy night, so we'll be closed. We'll try again next week.

Did you know that there are 5 known dwarf planets in our solar system? Everyone knows Pluto, but there is also Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

Info from: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/pluto/#n6

Astronomy Word of the Day

The Magellanic Clouds are two small, irregular dwarf galaxies outside of the Milky Way. These two galaxies are visible in the skies of the southern hemisphere, close to the South Celestial Pole, so they don't appear to set!

Image: https://aaa.org/.../01/southern-skies-the-magellanic-clouds/

3/19: Our public night is cancelled. The forecast keeps getting worse. We'll try again next week!

Space News!

A star located 12,000 lightyears from Earth engulfed one of its planets! It was previously believed that planets were engulfed by their stars expanding, but that isn't the case here. The planet, over millions of years, orbited closer to its star, to the point it was eventually engulfed by the star. The image is an artist's rendition of what happened.

View of Saturn's moon Hyperion as captured by Cassini spacecraft

Wed. Nov. 8 - Observatory closed due to cloud cover. We'll try again next week.