Purchase Tickets Here Winter Solstice December 21 is the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. For the next six months the days will grow progressively longer until once again the days will grow progressively shorter. What explains this phenomenon? How is this day celebrated throughout the […]
Purchase Tickets Here STARS Our sun is one of an estimated two hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone. We exist in an ocean of stars, but not all stars are alike. From Brown Dwarves to Black Holes stars produce a wide array of fascinating and exotic phenomena. How do stars come into […]
Purchase Tickets Here EXPLORATION OF MARS For over fifty years humans have sent spacecraft to explore the planet Mars. From orbit and on the surface much has been discovered about the “Red Planet”. What has been learned and what new questions have arisen? Could there be life on Mars? Join us in the Norton Planetarium […]
