Night Sky Update: December 16 – December 24, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, December 16, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Ship Model
Ship Model – ca. 1950s. The majestic Fragata Espanola was a ship of the Spanish Navy, launched in 1780. She fought in the battle of Cape St. Vincent, off the southern coast of Portugal in January 1780 during the American Revolutionary War. Since Spain supported the American colonists’ war of independence, Spanish frigates were used… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: December 9 – December 17, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, December 9, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Night Sky Update: December 2 – December 10, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, December 2, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Top Gun: Maverick
Night Sky Update: November 25 – December 3, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, November 25, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading
Fossil Skull
Fossil Skull Collected from South Dakota This skull belonged to an oreodont, an extinct North American herbivore that lived during the MiddleEocene through the end of the Miocene epoch-between roughly 40 million and 5.3 million years ago. They looked like a mix between a sheep, a camel, and a pig. They had short faces, fang-like… Continue reading
Natural Histories
Night Sky Update: November 18 – November 26, 2022
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, November 18, 2022. Information updated weekly or as needed. Times given as local St. Louis time which is Central Standard Time (CST). For definitions of terminology used in the night sky update, click the highlighted text. If relying on times… Continue reading