Galleries in the museum’s west wing will undergo construction starting in March.

The event on YouTube will include space-themed songs.

“I would eat space ice cream on Mars.” Who wouldn’t! Image by cljo Last autumn the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened the Public Observatory. Education staff and volunteers used the 16-inch Boller & Chivens telescope, with protective solar filter, to show visitors the many details on our Sun’s surface: sunspots, prominences, filaments, faculae, and more. The Observatory needed a few updates so it was closed down for the winter, but has opened…