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…
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,…
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 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…
Happy New Year! Well, here we are in 2021. After a very strange and sometimes difficult 2020, it’s nice to have the chance to start again. The situation may be the same, but maybe we can approach it with a new outlook now. Sometimes, you…
December 8, 2020 Ah, the holiday season. It’s a time when we usually do a lot of coming together…gathering with family and friends to celebrate and welcome the start of a new year. Of course, in 2020, that’s going to be a lot harder than…
Well, strictly, that’s not true. I’m generally a pretty happy person. Although, I’ve got to admit, 2020 is really testing my optimism to the limit. Anyone else out there starting to experience severe hug deprivation? But…good news for us…the peak of the Leonid Meteor Shower…
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