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Rare 7-Planet Alignment! Don't Miss the Great Planetary Parade

Don’t Miss the Rare Planetary Parade, February 21 – 28 2025! Featuring all seven of our solar system’s planets in alignment in the night sky.
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The Question I Always Get: Pluto

I get asked a lot of questions at the Planetarium and many—like…a lot—are demands to know what happened to Pluto. Let’s talk about Pluto’s 2006 reclassification from planet to dwarf planet/Kuiper Belt Object (KBO), why some folks got so upset, and why I...
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Tuesday, February 11 | 6:30 – 9:30 pm

Space: The New Frontier Boston Premiere

Join the Museum’s Center for Space Sciences and the Aurelia Institute for a special Boston preview screening of Space: The New Frontier in the Mugar Omni Theater, featuring introduction and Q&A with Ariel Ekblaw!
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Milky Way and Andromeda Collision

What happens when two galaxies meet? In this video, we explore the future of the nearby Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way galaxy.
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Space News Deep Dive: Bennu, the Organic Asteroid

So I know I just wrote about an asteroid last week, but to be fair it wasn’t the asteroid I thought I would be writing about. The news about the latest data release on the asteroid Bennu kind of got lost in the shuffle of the news about 2024 YR4, but the...
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Full Moon Meets Leo in the Night Sky!

What constellation will February’s full moon pass through? This year’s Snow Moon will be seen in the constellation Leo.
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Will Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hit Earth? What You Need to Know

Don’t panic: a 200 ft asteroid has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032! Scientists recently discovered an asteroid called 2024 YR4.
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Wednesday, February 5 | 7:00 pm

Beyond the Telescope: Earth, the Transiting Exoplanet featuring Astrophysicist Jackie Faherty

Explore the questions that are advancing our understanding of our place in space, using the cutting-edge technology and immersive data visualization systems of the Planetarium.
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Beyond the Telescope

Experience the latest groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics alongside the multidisciplinary researchers and science communicators working to better understand humanity’s greatest unresolved mysteries of the universe.
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Fireball Alert! Don’t Miss the Alpha Centaurids

What meteor shower will light up the skies in February? The Alpha Centaurids are best seen from the Southern Hemisphere!
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Space News Deep Dive: Incoming Asteroid (or Not?)

Thanks to a cosmic interloper currently known only as 2024 YR4, Bennu wasn't the only big asteroid news this week. Current data gives this rock a roughly 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032. You’ve (hopefully) heard the reasons why this...
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Planet Lineup: Venus, Saturn & Mercury

Your February night sky forecast is here! This month, Venus will be especially prominent, meaning it will still be seen several hours after dark due to its angle from the Sun.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Building Blocks of Life in Space!

What are the findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth? Scientists have found many key components for life in these samples.
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NASA Hubble’s Blue Lurker Mystery

Why is there a mysterious big blue star in a nearby star cluster? NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered this blue lurker where it typically wouldn’t be found.
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Space News Deep Dive: Making a Moon

There’s more than one way for a planet (or any object for that matter) to get itself a moon and we’re pretty sure we know how Earth wound up with the Moon. Despite being the most studied object in space, our Moon still has a few mysteries up its sleeve...