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Cosmic Strings

Cosmic Strings
My name is Kelly Herbst and I control the universe...well, at least in the Abbitt Planetarium at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia. View Original Blog

Blinded by the Light

Anyone who’s read a few of my posts on this blog will know that, from time to time, I have to get up on my soapbox. Today is one of those times. International Dark Sky Week is coming – April 22 through April 30.  I’ve…

Planets Are Moving…

Hey folks! Interested in checking out some planets?  Well, I hope you like getting up very early in the morning, because that’s what you’ll need to do in order see any planets during the month of March. Right now, there are no planets visible in…

I’m Your Venus

The Goddess has returned! No, no, not me.  Huh, that would be pretty egotistical of me, don’t you think? No, I’m referring to the second planet from the Sun, Venus.  The only one of the eight major planets (or heck, even the original nine planets,…

#SELFIE

So…I take terrible selfies. It may be because I never like pictures of myself.  At all.  And selfies don’t seem to be easy to take for me.  I just never seem to get the angle right.  Even though I can literally see myself at the…

Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves

Happy Women’s History month! As a woman in a STEM field, I get asked a lot about the challenges I faced getting my Ph.D. in physics and working in a very nearly all-male environment.  It’s kind of funny, because, honestly I’ve never really felt as…

See the Show!

Hey there folks! It’s been kind of hard for us to notice over the last few days, since our local Virginia weather has been, well, nothing short of awful.  But right now, the sky is putting on quite the show. Sadly, the lousy weather will…