Thinktank Planetarium

Ever wondered why Birmingham roads have the names they have? This is why.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/…/birm ingham-street-names-…

Only a couple of tickets left for a chance to hear these brand new compositions played by the Ligeti Quartet here at Thinktank.
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/…/t hinktank/whats-on/pl…

It's arrived - the Digistar 6 demo system from Evans & Sutherland for the BAP Conference in September. Big thanks to the technicians who helped unload the 3 crates and pallets.

Ever wondered why you see more meteors at different times of the year? Watch the Earth pass through the dust of comets
https://www.meteorshowers.org/

The Planets 2018 - Just confirmed Dr Leigh Fletcher will be giving a pre-concert talk about Jupiter & working with composer Richard Bullen.
http://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/think tank/…/planets-2018

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro nment-45060553

Meteor spotting season has begun.
http://earthsky.org/…/everything-you-ne ed-to-know-perseid-m…

The Planetarium will be closed tomorrow to start preparations for the main installation of a demo planetarium system by Evans & Sutherland and Skypoint Planetariums which will support the annual conference of the British Association of Planetaria in September.

Hubble Space telescope takes some stunning images of Saturn and Mars
https://www.universetoday.com/…/new-pho tos-of-saturn-and-m…/

Just announced - liquid water on Mars has been found by the European spacecraft Mars Express
https://www.esa.int/…/Mars_Express_dete cts_liquid_water_hid…

Lunar Eclipse alert! Look out for the Moon rising on Friday evening when the Earth's shadow passes over the Moon.
www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/lunar-ecli pse

Satellites show the effect of the UK heatwave.
https://www.standard.co.uk/…/uk-weather -forecast-latest-ama…

Scotland may become a launching site for space rockets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro nment-44841123

How research at Simon Fraser University, Canada could reduce earthquake damage.
https://www.sfu.ca/…/tiny-sensors-may-h elp-avert-earthquake…

Uranus may have been struck by an object twice the mass of Earth 4 billion years ago.
https://interestingengineering.com/uranus -struck-by-massive…

Building bridges has become a lot easier with LEGO
https://hackaday.com/2017/11/22/functioni ng-technic-slj900- bridge-builder/

brilliant fun for adults and kids. the moon installations are stunning. excellent talks and shows.

What a great day out! We took our granddaughters aged 9 and 5 and they loved it. In fact we had to keep pulling them away to see the next thing! We took a picnic which we were able to eat inside. Highly recommended!

We LOVED!

The girls and I enjoy our time here. We revisit semi regularly.

Saw the autumn stars show at 14:00 as the 11:30 planets & star show had sold out. 20minutes long and informative. A massive thumbs up to the staff who told noisy unruly kids to Shhhhhh and removed a noisy family who talked/ cried for the first 5 minutes. Thankyou for making it enjoyable!

Absolutely fantastic.... gr8 educational visit for children...recommend going....one memory we loved was visit to the Mad Machines in the Theatre by the shop...the man who did was it was absolutely great!!!... great memories and will go again...���

jo

Probably my fourth visit and seemed to have lost a little bit of sparkle but still a good range of hands on things to do for kids and grown ups alike - a few displays need freshening and bits were in need of a re-boot but good overall - the planetarium itself is excellent - watched return to the moon - I love anything moon based and found this really informative but thought could have been on a normal wide screen - could make better use of planetarium- disappointed I missed the moon exhibition too which I thought was on till 1 Oct but that was my bad planning wasn't it?