Night Sky Update: June 10 – June 18, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, June 10, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Daylight Time (CDT). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Radium Water Jar
St. Louis, Missouri, ca. 1925 At the beginning of the 20th century, radium was regarded as supernatural because of its radioactive and healing powers. Long thought to be a cure for cancer, it began appearing everywhere – in bath salts, mouthwashes, ointments, and face powders. Many doctors began prescribing radium water to patients, and some… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: June 3 – June 11, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, June 3, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Daylight Time (CDT). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Machete
Did you know that the machete has been an important tool in farming and agriculture for centuries? This example of the long and broad-bladed iron tool was used on a cotton farm in the early 20th century. As a lightweight and versatile tool, it was ideal to clear dead plants at the end of harvest,… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: Updated May 31, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, May 27, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Daylight Time (CDT). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: May 27 – June 4, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, May 27, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Daylight Time (CDT). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Yoga Under the Stars
Piranha
This freshwater fish native to the rivers, floodplains, and lakes of South America has earned quite the bad reputation thanks to Teddy Roosevelt. That’s right, the 26th President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt visited South America in 1913 and witnessed a group of piranhas devour an entire cow. He called them the “most ferocious… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: May 20 – May 28, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, May 20, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Daylight Time (CDT). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading