Bad Predictions - Albert Porta's End of the World!
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Jupiter Weather with Paul Milliken
For those of you planning a trip to the solar system's largest planet, you may want to check out this weather report before taking off!
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Live Sky- Space Junk! Is Earth a Hoarder??
From the makers of junk food and junk mail...comes...SPACE JUNK! Tens of millions of objects floating in orbit around our planet. How did they get there? Can we clean them up? Do the pose a threat to our astronauts or even here on Earth? Come see what our astronomers and TV's Matt Paxton have to say about Earth's history of hoarding objects for decades!! After the show, weather permitting, we will point telescopes into the vastness of space and see things with out own eyes! Live Sky is on Friday Feb 17th at 6:00 p.m.
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Cosmic Hoarders with Matt Paxton - Space Junk
There sure is a lot of stuff orbiting around Earth! We had to put in a call to clutter cleaner Matt Paxton of TV's "HOARDERS" to help talk the Earth into cleaning up her space! Well, maybe not, but check out this clip to learn about the oh so trashy truth about space junk!
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Live Sky; THE SUN! July 20
Large enough to hold one million Earths, the provider of nearly all the energy that fuels life here, regulates the temperature, controls the water cycle, and without life on Earth would not be possible. The Sun!
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Out of this World
How much do you weigh on Mars? How many moons does Saturn have? Let your imagination leave this world and travel to other planets. Study an actual moon rock recovered from Apollo 17 and grasp the properties of aluminum-lithium alloy. Launch a rocket to explore the effects of air pressure; climb into a space capsule and blast into outer space.
The Kugels
From the German word for ball, the kugels are giant spheres of granite that depict features of planet Earth and the Moon. The big one (Earth) weighs 29 tons and rolls with only 33 pounds of pressure per square inch—that’s less pressure than your faucet at home! The Kugels are mounted in the scale of one foot to 1,000 miles.
Foucault Pendulum
How can we be sure that planet Earth spins on an axis? Léon Foucault knew. His 1851 invention provided science with a simple mechanism for learning about the earth’s rotation. Witness the pendulum in action as it knocks over a peg every 15 minutes.
Cosmic Vision
Let your imagination travel to astronomical altitudes. Marvel over how the moon’s phases change the night sky. Touch a rock from outer space. Learn how to spot the Big Dipper and discover which stars you can see from your backyard tonight.
Wait, Voyager traveled HOW far?!?!?
In 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2, two probes boldly going where no spacecraft had gone before! After 35 years of zipping through space these ultimate inanimate explorers still work and are still communicating with us! The Voyager program has been a vital source of information used by astronomers in understanding more about our own cosmic back yard.
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