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First-known meteorite from Mercury to go on display at Yale’s Peabody Museum
We received this note from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History: Weighing less than a quarter pound, this is the largest fragment of a meteorite known as NWA 7325 that was discovered in 2012 as a...
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Make plans for Peabody’s 18th annual MLK celebration
We received this note from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History: Michael Mills and Brian Jarawa perform at last year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at the Peabody Museum in New Haven. NEW...
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Hubble Space Telescope hopes to untangle the Tarantula Nebula
This new Hubble image is the best-ever view of a cosmic creepy-crawly known as the Tarantula Nebula, a region full of star clusters, glowing gas, and dark dust. Astronomers are exploring and mapping...
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Mars orbiter finds a dramatic new impact crater
From a NASA press release: This crater was caused by a impact sometime between July 2010 and May 2012. A dramatic, fresh impact crater dominates this image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science...
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Biologist David Skelly new head of Yale Peabody Museum
We just received this note from Yale University: Biologist David Skelly has been named the next director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, announced President Peter Salovey. David Skelly...
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Carbon-rich ‘diamond planets’ likely more common than previously thought
We received this note from Yale University: This artist’s concept illustrates the fate of two different planets: the one on the left is similar to Earth, made up largely of silicate-based rocks with...
View ArticleAnsonia Family Campout and Star Party on Saturday
ANSONIA-It’s planned as a night out under the stars–shooting stars. The Nature Center is conducting a family camping expedition Saturday with the hopes of seeing the Perseid meteor showers. And even if...
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Yale scientists see the birth of a massive galaxy, hidden by dust
We received this note from the Yale University: This illustration reveals the celestial fireworks inside the crowded core of a developing galaxy, as seen from a hypothetical planetary system. NASA, Z....
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NASA competition for kids: Name a crater on Mercury
From a press release: This enhanced-color image of Mercury, recently published in Science magazine, shows the great Caloris impact basin, visible in this image as a large, circular, orange feature in...
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Connecticut Science & Engineering Fair to be staged at Quinnipiac March 12-13
Jeffrey Sload, a senior at Darien High School, talks with judge Christina Zito, a professor in the Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of New Haven, during judging for...
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