Do you have your membership yet for DisCon III? #DisConIII

Let’s go Nats!

#GivingTuesday Looking for a cause? Consider the David M Brown Scholarship, a program of the Friends of Arlington’s David M Brown Planetarium

The WSFA third Friday meeting on March 20, 2020 is cancelled due to #COVIDー19 #coronavirus concerns. The board will make a decision regarding April meetings soon. Please remember to wash your hands and take necessary precautions.

So, we're going to test a short, experimental Fast Forward conversation via Zoom at about 3pm Today, EDT. With luck we can get it to stream live to the Fast Forward YouTube channel youtube.com/channel/UCBr2U… #FastForwardContemporarySF

Fast Forward: Contemporary SF is live streaming a conversation with author Naomi Novik today at 11am US Eastern Time! Find it on our Facebook page and YouTube channel. youtu.be/Yxd_DbGDDg4 #FastForwardCSF #sciencefiction #naominovik

At 3pm on Sunday, November 15th Join us ONLINE as Dr. Jim Throne performs "Voices from the Sky" Watch it on our Facebook page facebook.com/friendsofthepl… It will be a fun, music-based program about #space science & history

Donate to the David M Brown Scholarship at: friendsoftheplanetarium.org

This is fabulous! marketplace.org/2021/01/21/yel…

Volleyball and volcanoes. Interesting combination!

The Friends of Arlington's Planetarium are hosting an online talk about Tyrannosaurus rex growth, presented by Dr. Thomas R. Holtz Jr. On Sunday, May 23, 2021, at 3pm US Eastern Time, you can watch live on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=UYZYVQ… or Facebook: facebook.com/friendsofthepl…

The Bike to Work Day pit stop was very - subdued - this year. Hope we are well and truly out of the pandemic by next year!

Here is a comparison of optical telescope primary mirror sizes. JWST and Hubble are at the bottom left. JWST’s 6.5m mirror is 6.25 times large than Hubble’s 2.4m mirror, in light collecting area. Source: commons.wikimedia.org...

The Jupiter and Venus conjunction this morning. #astronomy #planetaryconjunction #capitalweather

Thanks to the Arlington County School Board for including funds to reopen the Planetarium in the FY 2023 budget! #apsbudget APS School Board #friendsoftheplanetarium

Got to see (& hear!) the lovely Deeds Carillon before we left Dayton. Saw a whole lot of wind turbines on the road! It was a beautiful night in Chicago... #Worldcon #Chicon8

Thank you, #astronaut David M. Brown, for inspiring Arlington Public Schools #students. Who will be the next APS STEM graduate to reach #space? #Navy #flightsurgeon Brown was born #otd in 1956 in #ArlingtonVA @APSscience PlanetariumFriends #STEMcareer #STEM #pilot #surgeon #spaceflight