Thanks to events that are out of this world, you will find more people looking to the skies these days. Social media feeds have been full of technicolor pictures of the night sky for close to two years thanks to the sun reaching its solar maximum, allowing the Northern Lights to be more visible in more places during its 11-year activity cycle.

Lots of attention has also been placed on Cape Canaveral, where NASA continues to hope for the right time to send the Artemis spacecraft into orbit. It had to scratch its February launch date due to issues with its rocket. March 11 and some dates in April could be used to launch the Artemis program into moon exploration for the first time since the early 1970s.

Closer to home, Coggin Heeringa from Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay says the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society has done a great job engaging with the community, helping showcase the stars that can be seen in their own backyards.

Board member Steve Ransom-Jones will present “Appreciating Astronomic Analysis of the Ancients” on March 10 at 7 p.m. in the Stonecipher Astronomy Center. Due to expected weather conditions, a night sky viewing event has been postponed from March 14 to March 21 at 7 p.m., also at the Stonecipher Astronomy Center.