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Meteorologist Kevin Mackay provides the Aurora Borealis forecast, highlighting a significant spike in activity expected from Thursday night into early Friday morning. Learn which parts of Canada, from Alberta to Southern Ontario, will have the best viewing opportunities.
🌌 ASTRONOMY IS EXCITING!… or you’re not doing it right. 😏🔭 Join us Sat, Oct 24 with Dr. Stephen Jeans of Ambrose University & MRU as he shares his journey as a professor, his passion for astronomy & the discoveries that shaped his love of science! Register now! calgary.rasc.ca/wp/?page_id=...
🌌 ASTRONOMY IS EXCITING!… or you’re not doing it right. 😏🔭 Join us Sat, Oct 24 with Dr. Stephen Jeans of Ambrose University & MRU as he shares his journey as a professor, his passion for astronomy & the discoveries that shaped his love of science! Register now! calgary.rasc.ca/wp/?page_id=...
September’s Ask An Astronomer episode with Gina Martin (CTV News) is available! 💫✨🙌 Featuring Dr. Stephen Jeans and Don Hladiuk! youtu.be/FrNidPoG8SU?...
What happens when the ISS retires? | Ask an Astronomer | September 2026
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NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Thank you to CalgaryToSpace team members (Marian Abebe, Amy Brunton, Aarti Chandiramani, Meagan Davies and Aaryan Deshpande) who joined us to present “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace”! 💫🤩 A fantastic presentation building FrontierSat, Calgary’s first student-led mission to send a satellite to space!
TODAY!! You can still register up until the time of the event. Looking forward to seeing you there!
RASC Calgary Centre@calgaryrasc.bsky.social · last mo.Join us Saturday, Sept 19 at 4:30PM for “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace” at Telus Spark Infinity Dome Theatre with the UofC team! This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary's first student-led mission to send a satellite to space! Register for free via Eventbrite! 💫🛰️
Spent the weekend at the Alberta Star Party! Such an amazing way to learn about all things astronomy. Here are some photos taken with a Nikon Z5. Ones without cars or tents were shot through a Celestron 9.25" SCT. Thanks for a fantastic weekend @calgaryrasc.bsky.social!
This is tomorrow (Saturday)! Grab your tix! 🛰️🎟️✨
RASC Calgary Centre@calgaryrasc.bsky.social · last mo.Join us Saturday, Sept 19 at 4:30PM for “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace” at Telus Spark Infinity Dome Theatre with the UofC team! This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary's first student-led mission to send a satellite to space! Register for free via Eventbrite! 💫🛰️
Join us Saturday, Sept 19 at 4:30PM for “The Journey of CalgaryToSpace” at Telus Spark Infinity Dome Theatre with the UofC team! This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary's first student-led mission to send a satellite to space! Register for free via Eventbrite! 💫🛰️
The Journey of CalgaryToSpace
This presentation explores the journey of building FrontierSat, Calgary’s first student-led mission to send a satellite to space!
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Alberta Star Party 2026 engage! Some local star observing before the night commences! (This wonderful human is Judy Sterner, our librarian and highly active council member.) Please tag us on any ASP photos! Photo by Garnet Tozer
Last chance to pre-register for the Alberta Star Party! Online registration closes on Thursday at 8pm (you can also register in person on-site, so fret not!) Link: calgary.rasc.ca/wp/?page_id=...
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RASC Calgary Centre@calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 2mo agoRegistration for our Alberta Star Party 2026 is now open! Catch the link in our bio! Join us for the 40th anniversary! ✨🔭⛺️
Registration for our Alberta Star Party 2026 is now open! Catch the link in our bio! Join us for the 40th anniversary! ✨🔭⛺️
Adopt a pixel! Claim your pixel on one of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s first images! ✨ science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...
Adopt a Pixel Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - NASA Science
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation space observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy,
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch Credit: NASA/John Kraus images.nasa.gov/details/NHQ2... #Roman 🔭🧪
M17 is an emission nebula located about 5500 ly away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is an HII region, that is a region containing large amounts of ionized hydrogen. Stars are being formed here. #astronomy
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Auroras may shine alongside a lunar eclipse Thursday night - The Weather Network
Even as the Full Moon darkens Thursday night, due to passing through Earth's shadow, skies across parts of Canada could burst with colour as a geomagnetic storm sparks displays of the Aurora Borealis.
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Tools of a Bat Biologist: Bat Detectors 🦇 Bats navigate and hunt using ultrasonic calls—sounds too high for us to hear. Bat detectors bring those calls into our hearing range and allow biologists to record and examine them. What can we learn by listening to bats? A thread… 1/2
AURORA ALERT 🚨 NOAA has a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm watch up for Friday Aug 28, with G1 conditions Thursday. Two CMEs from Tuesday's M7 flare may clip Earth. Northern U.S. and Canada in play, plus a nearly total lunar eclipse Thursday night. Here's the rundown 👇 #heliophysics
It is rare to find PN in clusters as the clusters tend to drift apart before the stars that make PN get to that stage of evolution.
M46 is an open cluster located about 4900 ly away in the constellation of Puppis. The planetary nebula NGC 2438 appears to be in the cluster, but is a foreground object, being only about 1400 ly away from us. #astronomy
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is a long period comet that passed through the inner solar system in 2023. The long period comets are thought to originate in the Oort cloud, a cloud of cometary bodies surrounding the solar system upwards of 1 ly from the Sun. #astronomy
M95 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 33 Mly away in the constellation of Leo. Unlike normal spirals, barred spirals have a prominent bar of stars moving through their cores as seen in M95. Our own Galaxy is a barred spiral.
A busy weekend at Dinosaur Provincial Park! We participated in their festival celebrating dark skies, stars, and nocturnal wildlife this weekend. Hosted the bat booth, gave a bat talk and led a bat walk on Saturday evening to 64 participants! A beautiful summer weekend in Alberta!🦇
Our stargazing adventure with the public last night in Dinosaur Provincial Park occurred with this amazing trio playing in the moonlight. #astronomy outreach
