Planetarium Newsletter - June 2018
Cosmic Curiosities
“Let freedom reign. The Sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
~ Nelson Mandela, South African Lawyer & Leader
Colorful Full Moon in June

“Let freedom reign. The Sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
~ Nelson Mandela, South African Lawyer & Leader

The Oneida Tribe are members of the League of the Iroquois, a confederacy of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk based on mutual non-aggression. At a later date, the Tuscarora joined the Confederacy.
“Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.”
- Confucius

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
- Maya Angelou, American Author & Poet

“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close…”
- Robert Coover, American Novelist
“I'll toss my coins in the fountain
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross my fingers and dream on.”
- Tracy Chapman, American Singer

"How can I hope to be friends
with the hard, white stars
whose flaring and hissing are not speech
but a pure radiance?”
- Mary Oliver, American Poet

A hillside village. (MPM Neg. #: 80088B)