Join us in exploring the celestial buzz around the upcoming second moon event in Wyoming! Learn about asteroid 2024 PT5's passage through Earth's orbit and its intriguing journey through the solar system.
The Riverton Office of the National Weather Service has posted a video of Saturday's partial solar eclipse.
You can see the video below.
Saturday's eclipse was annular. NASA describes an annular eclipse this way:
An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, but when it is at or near its farthest point from Earth...
If you are into stargazing and/or looking at the moon, this is awesome news. You can view the International Space Station with the naked eye from right here in Casper.
We always encourage our Wyoming students to aim high. Midwest School took that direction literally a few months ago when they launched a high-altitude balloon nearly 100,000 feet over Wyoming.
It's hard to believe that this summer is the 32nd anniversary of the wildfire that nearly consumed Yellowstone National Park. I remember that summer of 1988 like it was yesterday.
Calling Mulder and Scully. Something weird is going on over the moon. There are multiple video shares showing weird objects over the lunar surface and it's definitely one for the X-Files.
As a kid, I was always fascinated by astronauts and space in general. I loved the Star-Trek movies and all though I realize that those movies are all fake It never stopped me from nerding out when I got to see what kinds of things NASA was up to just above our planet.