July is your chance to see one of the brightest comets in decades.
July 20, 2020
Space
Cornhole with an astronaut
Frank Graff talks moon walks and what's it's like in space with Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke...and plays cornhole... in the middle of UNC Chapel Hill's Morehead Planetarium. Duke trained to navigate by the stars in the planetarium.
Astronaut Mae Jemison wants us to "look up"
"The sky connects us. What's above us unites us." The science team met astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison this week, the first woman of color in space.
High Altitude Balloon Science
Students at Lenoir-Rhyne University join a NASA program to launch high altitude balloons that will capture images and data during the 2017 solar eclipse.
Discovering a New Galaxy: Interview with NC Astrophysicist Patrick Treuthardt
An NC astrophysicist's chance discovery turns out to be a rare, double-ringed galaxy 359 million light years from Earth.
Radiation In Space Could Be Harmful to Far-Travelling Astronauts
Radiation in Space Could Be Harmful to Far-Travelling Astronauts
May 12, 2017
Star Trek makes it look so easy. In that universe, one can conquer physics by travelling at faster-than-possible warp speed, beat computing and math by disintegrating someone at one point and building them back up at another, and surpass laws of thermodynamics with phaser beams.
The Iconic Earthrise Photo that Almost Never Happened
Have you ever had one of those days when almost nothing goes the way you planned and you just want to get away from it all?
I know, Southwest Airlines has an advertising campaign centered around that same theme, but nevertheless, you know the feeling.
It turns out, 1968 was an entire year like that. The Vietnam war was raging, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated, and there were riots in many American cities.
Astronaut Jim Lovell returns to Morehead
America's astronauts all learned celestial navigation at Morehead Planetarium. More than 50 years after training there, Gemini and Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell returns to reminisce about the program.
What Does it Take to Simulate Gravity in Space?
We've all seen the videos on the news, the internet, and even social media of astronauts floating around inside their space ships.
Space shuttle astronauts floating between flight decks, International Space Station astronauts doing endless flips in the middle of the lab or floating around corners and journeying from lab to lab.
Science Above North Carolina
The zero-gravity environment onboard the International Space Station enables astronauts and researchers to better study health issues that impact people on Earth.