Join the Popular Astronomy Club for a National Astronomy Day celebration at the Moline Public Library, 3210 41st St., from 2-9:30 p.m. Saturday. The educational family event will feature displays, astronomy-themed crafts, demonstrations of comet nucleus forming, a weight station to discover your weight on different planets, gravity explanations, door prizes and refreshments. <\/p>\n
See the sun safely with specially filtered telescopes until dusk, then tour the night sky until 9:30 p.m., weather permitting. Venus, Mars and Saturn should be visible, along with star clusters. Sky viewing will take place in the back parking lot of the Moline Public Library. <\/p>\n
Dr. Robert Mutel from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa will present a program for adults at 3 p.m. on Alien Worlds: The Search for Life on Extra-Solar Planets. The program will explore recent developments in the ongoing search for life outside of our solar system. <\/p>\n
The free event is sponsored by the Popular Astronomy Club and University of Iowa Speakers Bureau. For more information, call the library at 309-524-2480 or visit molinelibrary.com. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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