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Adventures in the Night Sky

Strait Planetium - Mansfield Commonwealth University 76 Stadium Dr, Mansfiel, PA

Travel on your own to the Strait Planetarium in the Grant Science Center building at Mansfield Commonwealth University on  June 24, 2024 at 7:00pm. Dr. Elaine Farkas, physicist, will present, "Adventures in the Night Sky!” Our night sky tour will include history, myths & current adventures & missions in space.  After dark at 8:30pm (families…

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Women in Astronomy—Henrietta Leavitt

Strait Planetium - Mansfield Commonwealth University 76 Stadium Dr, Mansfiel, PA

Hamilton-Gibson is presenting the play “Silent Sky” in May.  This play is about Henrietta Leavitt and her research at Harvard Observatory in the early 1900’s.  Discoveries by Leavitt included how the brightness variability of some stars could be used to measure their relative distance to earth.  This was key to future work on mapping the…

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