Entertaining and educational space science organization looking for dynamic, friendly people to join our team!
Does this sound like you? Join Clark Planetarium for a Job Fair on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010 where we will be interviewing for part-time floor staff positions.
Grab your party hats and telescopes, it’s time to celebrate 400 years of observational heliocentrism.
You have a good opportunity this week to observe Venus and see the dynamic geometry of the solar system in action.
While you are looking at Venus, appearing like a diminutive first-quarter moon in your telescope’s eyepiece, consider this:
Last year several Clark Planetarium staff members had the opportunity to watch the DM-1 test firing of the Ares solid rocket motor in Promontory, Utah. I was there, watching the visual representation of what 3.6 million pounds of thrust (22 million horsepower) looks like and it was pretty incredible.
Next Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, at 9:05 a.m. [...]
We’re going to light up The Dark Side of the Moon! Clark Planetarium’s 2010 gala fundraising event is reaching back to the 1970s for a groovy evening with delicious fine dining, silent and live auctions and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon Cosmic Light Show. Proceeds from this event benefit planetarium education programs serving [...]
One of the most reliable and memorable meteor showers of the year will peak on August 12. That’s when the Earth will collide with a stream of particles left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle. While these particles will hit Earth’s upper atmosphere at speeds of 130,000 miles per hour, there is no need for Earthlings to [...]
The Perseid meteor shower peaks at 6:00 pm, MDT, on Thursday, August 12, 2010. Predictions are for a healthy 90 meteors per hour at peak. A waxing crescent Moon will set early and give meteor watchers a good dark sky on the nights of the 11th and the 12th.
Regardless of the predicted peak hour, the [...]
20% chance of an aurora visible tonight. Look to the north from a dark location!
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