Traveling at some 70,000 mph, spaceship Earth will make its closest approach to our star on January 4th. We will be nearly 3 and a half million miles closer to the Sun then we will be on July 4. Still think distance is the reason for the seasons?! #OurIslandUniverse

Our Island Universe: Closest to the Sun

“ Our Island Universe ” is a weekly 4-minute segment looking at new discoveries in our understanding of what lies beyond the horizon and what it means to us here on earth. Parts science, history, physics and pop culture, it’s designed to inform, educate and entertain. Our Island Universe is a partnership between WMKY and Morehead State University's Space Science Center. Virani named Star Theater director Astrophysicist Shanil Virani has been named as the new director of Morehead State's Star Theater and as an instructor of space systems engineering. Virani previously worked as director of the John C. Wells Planetarium at James Madison University. He spent more than five years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as part of the science team of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. He said he's excited to use the Star Theater to motivate more young people to get interested in science. "MSU's state-of-the-art Star Theater really brings planetarium astrophysics into the 21st Century

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