Category - Constellations/Sky

Christa McAuliffe Space Center

There’s a new planetarium in town, and the Christa McAuliffe Space Center belongs to Alpine...

Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, is famous for being the place where Pluto was discovered...

Fifty thousand years ago a large meteor struck Arizona in the middle of the desert. Some folks in...

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has split into two different museums. The main museum is still...

We are huge space junkies here at Utah’s Adventure Family. We love the sky and the stars...

We had an amazing experience with the Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017. We are lucky...

Finding constellations is remarkably easy with a little help. We’ve written an entire series...

This is the 3rd entry in a series about finding constellations. You can also learn to find...

Let me begin by saying that Delphinus is an advanced constellation. If you’re still puzzling...

The other night I was with my boys under the stars. My five year-old looked up and said...

I’ve been going for a long walk around my suburban neighborhood every night, and on most...

Sagittarius is beautiful right now in Utah Valley where I live. It can only be seen from July...

I got my first telescope last year for Christmas, and I was so excited. It is called the Funscope...

So let’s talk about Charles Messier and his famous objects. Messier was a French astronomer...

Natural Bridges National Monument is an amazing place in southeastern Utah, but it is not visited...

BYU has a planetarium on the 4th floor of the Eyring Science Center. We visited earlier this year...

Have you ever seen a pure black crow flying in the southern summer sky? I haven’t either. But...

Picture taken from Telescope King Lyra is one of the most beautiful and interesting...

The large telescope was focused on Venus. BYU hosts an Astrofest every May at the Eyring Science...

This was the best picture I got of the Blood Moon. On April 14th at midnight, the Earth cast its...