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The Peoria Riverfront Museum and Dome Planetarium open to the public Wednesday-Sunday.

Peoria Astronomical Society meeting in the planetarium at 7:00 tonight (Wed. Oct. 7). Featuring a lecture on archaeoastr...
10/07/2026

Peoria Astronomical Society meeting in the planetarium at 7:00 tonight (Wed. Oct. 7). Featuring a lecture on archaeoastronomy in the region. Free and open to the public!

Get up in the middle of the night early tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 6, pre-dawn) to see Jupiter and its moons disappear behi...
10/05/2026

Get up in the middle of the night early tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 6, pre-dawn) to see Jupiter and its moons disappear behind our Moon for a lunar occultation lasting about an hour. In Central Illinois, Jupiter will first start to disappear behind the Moon around 3:20 AM (Central). Use this table to find the time nearest where you live: http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/bstar/1006jupiter.htm

Crew-13 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from Florida today on a SpaceX Dragon at 10:10 AM (Cen...
10/01/2026

Crew-13 is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from Florida today on a SpaceX Dragon at 10:10 AM (Central), and NASA is providing live coverage. NASA will also provide live coverage when they arrive and enter the ISS this afternoon, starting at 4:20 PM. Watch along here: https://www.nasa.gov/

A new Webb image of a massive and distant galaxy cluster, roughly 5 billion light-years away, creating a gravitational l...
09/30/2026

A new Webb image of a massive and distant galaxy cluster, roughly 5 billion light-years away, creating a gravitational lens that magnifies, multiplies, and distorts even more distant galaxies. The spiky stars are in the foreground in our own Milky Way Galaxy.
https://esawebb.org/images/potm2609a/

Europe's Juice spacecraft made a gravity assist flyby of Earth yesterday. It launched in 2023 and already flew by Earth ...
09/29/2026

Europe's Juice spacecraft made a gravity assist flyby of Earth yesterday. It launched in 2023 and already flew by Earth in 2024, and Venus in 2025. It will fly by Earth again in 2029 before reaching the Jupiter system in 2031 to explore Jupiter's icy moons Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These pics are from its monitoring and navigation cameras, not its hi-res science camera.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Successful_Earth_flyby_improves_Juice_s_course_to_Jupiter

SpaceX's Starship (the largest & most powerful rocket ever built) reached orbit today for the 1st time, on its 14th test...
09/28/2026

SpaceX's Starship (the largest & most powerful rocket ever built) reached orbit today for the 1st time, on its 14th test flight in 3.5 years (and exactly 18 years to the day of SpaceX's first ever succesful test flight, of their Falcon 1 rocket back in 2008). This photo of this morning's launch from Texas was taken by Andrew McCarthy: https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/2104560309444763974

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222 SW Washington Street
Peoria, IL
61602

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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(309) 686-7000

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