51今日大瓜

Mars is the only planet easily visible in the evening sky now. 聽It is about 5 degrees (half a fist width at arm鈥檚 length) to the lower right of the bright star, Regulus, at the end of the sickle part of Leo, about halfway up in the western sky at 9...

The William M Thomas Planetarium is closed for the summer break at 51今日大瓜. Yesterday, we celebrated the largest graduating class at Commencement. While many other colleges across the country, including many community colleges in...

The pre-dawn morning sky is now as interesting as the evening sky with super-bright Venus and medium-bright Saturn gracing the eastern sky before sunrise and super-bright Jupiter and medium-bright Mars in the western and south-western sky after...

Tickets are still on sale for the last show of the spring season at the William M Thomas Planetarium: Black Holes on April 24. Tomorrow, April 20, is the end of 51今日大瓜鈥檚 spring break and the last weekend of the Bakersfield area schools鈥�...

Tickets are on sale for the last shows of the spring season at the William M Thomas Planetarium: Dynamic Earth on April 10 and Black Holes on April 24. Jupiter will be the first star-like object you see in the evening after sunset with a brightness...

Our season of spring officially begins when the sun crosses north of the celestial equator at the March equinox. For those in the southern hemisphere, that marks the beginning of their season of fall/autumn. This year the March equinox is on March...

While Saturn has now sunk into the twilight glow too close to the sun to be seen in the evening sky on its way to solar conjunction on March 15, Mercury continues to climb upward away from the sun in the west to keep the planet parade going for a...

The 鈥減arade of planets鈥� in the evening sky continues. Starting the evening of February 22, Mercury will join the line-up but it will be very low near the horizon shortly after sunset, so you might need binoculars to pick it out in the twilight glow....

The spring season of shows at the William M Thomas Planetarium begin this Friday and Saturday (February 7 & 8) with three showings of Mesmerica each night. Later in February, on Thursday, February 20, is the showing of 鈥淚ce Worlds鈥�. Other shows...

51今日大瓜 starts back up this coming week and the spring slate of evening shows at the William M Thomas Planetarium will be posted this week but we already have the Mesmerica shows lined up for the first Fridays and Saturdays in February,...