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Constellations: Science and Stories in the Sky

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Online Public

Type: Special Event

Held on: Jul 28, 2020 (Tue) at 01:00 PM to Jul 28, 2020 (Tue) at 02:00 PM

Online Location: Youtube Live Webcast

Speaker: Carter Emmart

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Event Coordinator: John McLaren

Overview

Summer is the finest part of the year for stargazing because it offers warm nights and the beauty of the Milky Way running straight overhead. The constellations we see have been passed down to us across generations with patterns that reflect different stories from around the world.

As part of STAR Net‘s Sky Stories campaign, the American Museum of Natural History’s own Carter Emmart will show you how to identify the constellations and introduce you to a few of these stories while exploring some of the science behind the familiar patterns in the sky.

This live OpenSpace webcast is brought to you by the STAR Library Network’s NASA@ My Library program in partnership with the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the American Library Association, and the American Museum of Natural History.

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