This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, May 5, 2023. 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
R2-D2 Cookie Jar – Painted Ceramic, 1977 Is this the droid you’re looking for? You’re not the only one! In 1977, Twentieth Century Fox moved to capitalize on the immediate success of Star Wars, flooding stores with merchandise of all kinds. This cookie jar was part of the “New Hope” collection featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, April 28, 2023. 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
Audubon Print, No. 46 – “American Green winged Teal,” 1834 This life-like engraving is part of the Birds of America folio book by John James Audubon. It includes 435 color plates (prints) documenting nearly 1,000 American birds in careful and accurate detail. It is an important work of natural history and scientific observation created by… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, April 21, 2023. 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
Bronze Elephant Sculpture – ca. 1920s Did you know that you can tell the three species of elephant apart by looking at their ears? It’s true! The ears of the African elephant species (Savanna and Forest) are much larger than their Asian elephant cousins. Also, the shape of African elephant ears looks like the African… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, April 14, 2023. 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
Hand-painted Ceramic Statuette – Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin Today we celebrate the International Day of Human Space Flight with this statuette of the very first human in space. On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin launched into space aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. He spent 108 minutes in space, orbiting the Earth at a speed… Continue reading
This is the Saint Louis Science Center’s NIGHT SKY UPDATE for the week of Friday, April 7, 2023. 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
