Santa Clarita residents of all ages gravitated to the College of the Canyons (COC) Canyon Country Campus Star Party Friday night to see out-of-this-world advancements in science and technology. The Star Party guest speaker for the evening was Dr. Jennifer Burt, Ph.D., an extreme precision radial velocity (EPRV) Investigation Scientist working with NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program office at JPL. An ...
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Mars, Jupiter Conjunction To Be Visible In Weekend Skies
Mars and Jupiter are set to be visible in the pre-dawn sky this weekend in an event known to astronomers as a conjunction, where the two planets appear close together. During this Memorial Day weekend, sky gazers can catch a glimpse of the two planets as they appear 20 degrees above the horizon in the eastern-southeastern sky against the constellation ...
Read More »‘Super Flower Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse To Be Visible From Santa Clarita
Passing through the shadow of the Earth on Sunday, the full moon is expected to reflect a total lunar eclipse for the majority of the United States, including Santa Clarita. The blood moon is expected to appear red for almost 85 minutes Sunday night, when the Earth is positioned directly between the moon and sun, covering the moon from sunlight, ...
Read More »How Do You Explain Astronomy To A Child?
One of the most beautiful character traits children have is their sense of curiosity. As adults, we often get used to our surroundings and our sense of wonder and awe needs a little encouragement. This is when children come along with their never-ending questions, forcing you to take a step back for a moment and start wondering like a child ...
Read More »West Ranch High School Students Launch Science Experiments To Stratosphere
Astronomy students at West Ranch High School had the opportunity to launch a group of experiments of their own design into the stratosphere via a weather balloon on Thursday. Members of the 6th Annual Weather Balloon Launch team, students and staff gathered in the outdoor amphitheater at West Ranch High School during lunch to witness the launch. “An hour before ...
Read More »Santa Clarita Welcomes Local Star Gazers To Astronomy Day Celebration
Santa Clarita officials are inviting residents to join in its Astronomy Day celebration this October. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Residents of all ages are invited to become astronomers and engineers for a day while attending Astronomy Day 2016 on Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. This ...
Read More »NASA Astronaut, Scientist Speak at 13th Annual Star Party At COC
Astronomers and space enthusiasts from all over southern California gathered at the College of the Canyons Canyon Country campus for the 13th bi-annual Star Party, where an astronaut and an orbital debris scientist from NASA presented about life in space and what Hollywood gets wrong about the movie Gravity. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right ...
Read More »NASA Engineer, Santa Clarita Resident Works On Juno Mission To Jupiter
In her most recent work as a Flight System Systems Engineer on NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter and as Technical Group Supervisor — you’d think Tracy Drain grew up knowing she wanted to be a scientist. KHTS AM 1220’s Afternoon Drive DJ T.Katz had the opportunity to interview Drain on her show and shared how she fell about becoming an ...
Read More »Partial Solar Eclipse To Darken Santa Clarita Thursday
Courtesy of NBCNews.com If you missed the “blood moon” earlier this month, a solar eclipse this afternoon offers another chance to see an unusual arrangement of the heavenly bodies. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Thursday brings a partial solar eclipse, with the moon passing between the Earth and the sun just enough ...
Read More »Supermoon To Appear Saturday, First Of Three
A supermoon is expected to appear on Saturday for the first of three times this summer.
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