The Planetarium at UT Arlington
Monday, November 23, 2009
Today's Events
| 2:30 pm | Secret of the Cardboard Rocket |
| Join two children on a magical journey through the Solar System, aided by a talking astronomy book, a cardboard rocket, and a vivid imagination. During this imaginative show, audiences will land on Venus, fly through the rings of Saturn, and discover the secrets of the Solar System. | |
| 5:30 pm | Seven Wonders |
| Turn back the pages of time and witness the ancient wonders of the world as they have not been seen for thousands of years. We will investigate the theories of how these wonders were created and get a glimpse of some of the universe's greatest wonders. | |
Browse Questions
- Are aliens real?
- Every leap year, we add a compensatory day. In the interim, why is our official time never off by one-quarter or three quarters a day?
- General relativity proved that light can bend based on a lot of gravity being forced onto the light. What are the two proofs of this?
- Have astronauts ever been to ___?
- How does astronomy work?
- How far apart are Betelgeuse and Rigel from each other? That is to say how large is the constellation Orion if measured from one of these stars to the other?
- How far away are the stars?
- If I were to fast-forward into the future, and I was setting up a base on Callisto, what might be the best place to do that? Would somewhere like in the Lofn crater be a good place to put it? If so, what would the area look like? Would I be able to see Jupiter from there? Would the ground feel and look like snow? Would the thin atmosphere carry any sort of sound?
- Is a black hole a tunnel to another part of the Universe?
- Is Jupiter a "brown dwarf" star?
- Is Pluto a planet, or what?
- What happens if you get too close to a black hole?
- What is a "dwarf planet" exactly?
- What is a black hole?
- What is a light year?
- What is the best place and time to see a meteor shower?
- What's the difference between 3rd dimensional and 4th dimensional?
- When will the Milky Way collide with Andromeda? Are those estimates accurate?
- Why is the earth not at 0° solar longitude on March 21 (the vernal equinox, 1st day of spring), but at 180°? Confusingly, the vernal equinox supposedly marks the 0°
- Why is the speed of light referred to as the letter "c"?
- Will an asteroid hit the Earth in ___?
- Will the world end in 2012?
