Current Events

  • January 12  -  Astronomical Society of SouthEast Texas Meeting at the Planetarium from 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Meetings are usually held on the 2nd Friday of the Month at the Murry J Frank Planetarium from 7:00 p.m. -  9:00 p.m. They are free and open to the public. Please join us!

    There will to be a public ASSET meeting in December due to member Christmas Party.

    December 4 - 10  Computer Science Education Week. Here is a holiday coding activity for young students - Make a binary holiday garland. It contains the ASCII alphabet characters, so you can make your garland for any event or holiday you celebrate, or the names of everyone in your family, or....the possibilities are endless!

    March 24-25, 2024  -  Penumbral Lunar Eclipse   Click here for more information

    April 8, 2024  -  Solar Eclipse  Click here for more information.

     

    Dare Mighty Things!!!!  How to Get an Internship at JPL - 

    https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2021/7/29/how-to-get-an-internship-at-jpl/

    Globe at Night

    Help preserve our night skies by participating in this citizen science project. https://www.globeatnight.org/

     

    Images from the James Webb Telescope

    Stay updated on this amazing piece of technology as it gets into position to look for the most distant galaxies!

    https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery

     

    Where is the Perseverance Rover on Mars?

    Find it with this web app!  Find the Perseverance Rover