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The Appold Planetarium was upgraded in this summer with a new state of the art projector so our stars are brighter than ever! Everyone can be an astronaut in this digital immersive theater.

07/15/2024

NASA’s logo turns 65 today!
The iconic symbol, known affectionately as “the meatball,” was developed by employee James Modarelli. The red, white, and blue design, which includes elements representing NASA’s space and aeronautics missions, became the official logo of the United States’ new space agency in 1959. A simplified version of NASA’s formal seal, the symbol has been launched on rockets, flown to the Moon and beyond, and even adorns the International Space Station.

07/12/2024

Depending on the type of fuel, rocket flames can reach temperatures as high as 3,300 degrees Celsius (6,000 degrees Fahrenheit). This is almost three times the temperature of the hottest lava found on Earth.

Here you can see the fiery take-off of Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, nicknamed “Noise of Summer,” which took place this week. The launch was part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, carrying eight CubeSats designed by universities and NASA centers to conduct climate studies, satellite technology development, and educational outreach to students. Image credit: Firefly Aerospace / Pauline Acalin.

07/02/2024

This short film explores just how much is going on every moment in our ridiculously enormous universe.

A lot can happen in the blink of an eye.

06/29/2024

06/26/2024

A nova is a much smaller stellar explosion than a supernova. Novae are also much less rare; the last nova to happen in the Milky Way was in 2022 — we haven’t seen a supernova in our galaxy since 1604.

A giant stellar explosion is going to be visible from Earth. Here's how to see it.

06/22/2024

Perhaps we should look into this...

06/20/2024

Enjoy all the sunshine that today will bring!

06/10/2024

Farthest galaxy we’ve see so far…

The James Webb Space Telescope took this infrared image of distant galaxies. One such galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), had a redshift that makes it the current record-holder for the most distant known galaxy. So this galaxy existed less than 300 million years after the Big Bang!

Image via NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI/ Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz)/ Ben Johnson (CfA)/ Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge)/ Phill Cargile (CfA).

06/06/2024

Weird ocean on Pluto...

The outer solar system, where Pluto orbits, is sometimes referred to as a deep freeze. It’s an icy and desolate place, with Pluto itself so far from the sun that – from its vantage point – the sun looks like a bright star. Yet Pluto is thought to have a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust. That...

06/05/2024

Boeing Starliner hopes it's first launch will be today at 10:52 AM. Watch here:

Direct from America's space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we dis...

06/04/2024

This asteroid has its own moon!

Images from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on Dinkinesh where a large piece — about a quarter of the

05/21/2024

Putting things into perspective...

05/07/2024

Happy planetarium day everyone! Celebrate the stars with us!

04/23/2024

Snow sometimes falls on Mars in the form of water ice, but with low temperatures and a thin atmosphere, it sublimates into a gas before it even touches the ground. Carbon dioxide snow, or dry ice, is much more likely to reach the ground.

04/22/2024

Happy Earth Day everyone!

The campaigns will focus on topics ranging from urban air pollution to changing weather patterns.

04/16/2024

The 2024 eclipse may have won the record for the most-watched total solar eclipse in history! Hundreds of millions of people were within driving distance of totality, and tens of millions more watched live streams of the eclipse online.

04/15/2024

One week after the eclipse... lots of fun stories, lots of great photos.

Most striking to me are people's reactions--even though people were told what to expect, the reality of the eclipse was more emotional, compelling, or "way cooler." Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had more moments of when we came together, regardless of culture, faith, bank accounts, or voting preferences?

Photo by Kendall Rust, Jonesboro, Arkansas

04/09/2024

Yesterday was awesome, so now it's time to make plans for the next one!

04/07/2024

Get to totality tomorrow!

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6832 Convent Boulevard
Sylvania, OH
43560

Telephone

+14195178897

Website

http://www.Lourdes.edu/Planetarium

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Videos

Sun's chromosphere

Get ready for the eclipse with the show "TOTALITY" in the Appold Planetarium this weekend!

beautiful sun

Our beautiful Sun yesterday as seen from space by the SDO spacecraft. Credit: NASA

Massive explosion on the Sun -a coronal mass ejection. This happened on the far side of the Sun, which is really lucky for everyone on Earth!

Black Hole Visit

Black Friday is for black holes!

Excited to have a brand-new picture of our Milky Way's black hole to talk about in the planetarium tonight!

Off the screen! Perseverance rover filmed the Mars helicopter Ingenuity’s third flight, at least the part that was in its field of view! 164 feet downrange, then back to home base. Keep in mind that the test chamber on Earth only let the helicopter fly 1.6 feet.

Visiting a Black Hole

Black Holes are really not safe, but if you really must go then watch the safety video first!

Visualizing a black hole

Brand new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualization simulates the appearance of a black hole where infalling matter has collected into a thin, hot structure called an accretion disk. The black hole’s extreme gravity skews light emitted by different regions of the disk, producing the misshapen appearance. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

The Sun as observed in a different wavelength by the Solar Dynamics Observatory

And a little more sunshine!

Planet Earth

A celebration of our planet on Earth Day

Scale of the Solar System

Friday night special: Speed up time to 5 hours per second and this is what the solar system looks like... sizes, rotation rates and tilts of select solar system objects are to scale! Video by Dr. James O'Donoghue of NASA Goddard.