Michael and Kimthanh Lê Planetarium

The ISS is the third brightest object in the night sky after the Sun and the Moon. For all thoes night owls or early risers, we have a great opportunity to see it tomorrow morning (June 20) at 4:35 am. It will rise over the horizon to the southeast and move towards the northwest getting almost directly overhead.

(Image credit: Caught Light Photography Limited / Alamy Stock Photo)

Tune in tomorrow, June 9, at 11 a.m. EDT to meet the astronauts flying aboard Artemis III, the mission that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities with commercial landers in low Earth orbit. Commercial landers are needed to bring astronauts to the lunar surface during future Artemis missions.

NASA’s Artemis III Announcement (Official NASA Trailer) Tune in on Tuesday, June 9, at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) to meet the a...

Looking for a sweet escape under the stars? ✨ Check out our June calendar for upcoming shows and events🤩!!

Which show are you most excited/interested in seeing this month👀??

Old Dominion University ODU College of Sciences

This Wednesday, June 3, our topic of the evening is "light". Part astronomy, part anatomy lesson, the full-dome movie "Seeing! A Photon's Journey" follows a photon as it leaves a star, travels the cosmos, and enters the human eye. (Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson.)

Also includes a science demo show all about light!

June 3
$5 per person
6:30 doors open, tickets available
7:00-8:15 showtime

The hunt for dark matter is a long and mysterious road. Is it some unknown subatomic particle? Is it our incomplete explanation of gravity?

https://vimeo.com/941064443?fl=pl&fe=sh

Find out more tonight at the Lê Planetarium.

$5 per person
6:30 doors open, tickets available
7:00-8:15 showtime

Phantom of the Universe – Trailer

With temperatures rising, the days getting, and summer almost here, let's talk about the Sun.

Tonight, at The Lê Planetarium, we're focusing on the star of our solar system. (Pun intended.) Playing on the dome is "Sunstruck", which focuses on stellar composition and space weather. We'll follow this with a planetarium show of the night sky and even more facts about the Sun.

$5 per person
6:30 doors open, tickets available
7:00 showtime!

Currently, over 15,000 operational satellites orbit the planet, according to the European Space Agency. That is three times more than circled Earth in 2020. The increase is mostly down to SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of more than 10,000 satellites.

"This black carbon is being released into the higher layers of the atmosphere where it stays for 2.5 to 3 years. Because of that, that black carbon has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon that's released from surface sources like ships, cars and power plants."

SpaceX Starlink and other satellite megaconstellations are creating an 'unregulated geoengineering experiment', scientists say "Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants."

The Ultimate Grad Flex

Neil Armstrong really hit “pause” on his Master's degree to go make history. He didn’t officially graduate until 1970 because he used the actual Apollo 11 landing as his final thesis credit. Talk about the ultimate Work/Study program!

If the first person on the moon finished his degree on a delay, you’re doing just fine💫