Climb the stairs up to the Museum's Observatory.
Be our guest and take a peek through our 60 inch refractor telescope
at some of the mysteries surrounding space and time:
Are We Alone?- It
was once assumed that Earth was just a typical planet in a run-of-the-mill
solar system. Some evidence is beginning to appear that suggests
this isn't true. If so, what does this mean about life on other
planets?
The Great Space Elevator- A wild concept that was purely science fiction 20 years
ago, might reach reality in just another 20 years.
The Spaceship that
Never Was - In the late 1950's a group of American scientists
had a dream of using a nuclear bomb propelled spaceship to get
to Saturn by 1970. The effort was scuttled because of politics,
but would the idea have worked?
The Great Moon Landing
Hoax - Somebody is certainly hoaxing us here, the question
is whether it is NASA or the people that claim man never went
to the moon...
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The
X-Planets - Throughout the centuries astronomers
have searched for new planets, often without success. Is there
a 10th planet in our solar system still waiting to be found, or
is looking for it simply a wild goose chase?
The Great
Siberian Explosion - Something big fell out of space in
1908 and exploded over Siberia with the force of an H-bomb. Was
it a meteorite? Or a UFO?
Bethlehem's Star
- What did the Magi seen in the sky 2000 years ago?
The Mysterious Moons of
Mars - How did the writer Jonathan Swift know about the
two moons of Mars a century before they were discovered?
Where is all the Antimatter?
- According to theory half the Universe should be made of antimatter.
If so, why can't we find it?
Flash Movie: Conjunctions
and Occultations - What does it mean when two planets
are in conjunction? What's a triple conjunction? What happens
during an occultation? This flash movie will explain it.
Flash Movie: Meteor
Impact! - When a really big rock hits the Earth, what
happens? Find out in the flash movie.
