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Natural Selection

Emera Astronomy Center 167 Rangeley Rd. , Orono

Join the young Charles Darwin on an adventurous voyage of exploration circumnavigating the World with the HMS Beagle. In the 19th century in Victorian times many physical phenomena were already discovered and described by natural laws, but life’s most eloquent mechanism was still unknown: How could new species arise to replace those lost in extinction? […]

Science Lecture Series: Dr. Henning Haack

Emera Astronomy Center 167 Rangeley Rd. , Orono

“Meteorites and the Origin of the Solar System,” a lecture presented by Dr. Henning Haack, Associate Researcher, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel. In April 2016, a very bright fireball was observed over Maine most likely resulting in a meteorite fall north of Bethel.  Unfortunately, the meteorite was never found, despite considerable effort to locate […]

Magic Treehouse: Space Mission

Emera Astronomy Center 167 Rangeley Rd. , Orono

Travel with the brother-sister duo, Jack and Annie, in their Magic Treehouse as they discover a note that asks them to answer a series of six questions about space. With the help of an astronomer, the Internet, an astronaut, books and the writer of the mysterious note, Jack and Annie are taken on a wondrous journey […]

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