How are you at staying up really late? Can you handle a Monday at work on short sleep? You might want to plan on getting that extra supersized bucket of coffee on Monday morning May 16, because there’s a really good reason to stay up…
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…
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…
Hey folks! I’m back! At least, I’m trying to be back. COVID has really played havoc with us, hasn’t it? But I’m still doing my best here at the Abbitt Planetarium. I hope to be able to return to at least monthly updates of this…
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,…
Hello there folks! So NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility has been trying to launch a rocket carrying the KiNet-X mission into the atmosphere since Friday. Weather has been less than cooperative, but they do plan to try again tonight! The launch is scheduled for 8:04pm…
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…
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…
Hey everyone! Just a quick reminder to tune in to NASA TV today beginning at 2:15pm for the entry, descent and landing phase of the Perseverance mission to Mars…also known as the 7 minutes of terror! Hopefully by around 4pm today, we will have confirmation…
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…