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Darren Williams will discuss why rocks from space sometimes fall from the sky on Thursday, Oct. 17, when Open House Night in Astronomy returns to Penn State Behrend.

The sky is falling! Behrend talk to focus on comet and asteroid crashes

Darren Williams, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State Behrend, and Jim Gavio, director of the college’s Yahn Planetarium, will host a special telescope fundamentals session when Open House Nights in Astronomy returns to the college on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Telescope fundamentals session to be held at Penn State Behrend

Venus and Mars pictured.

Behrend astronomy program to focus on Mars and Venus

Crater pictured.

Behrend astronomy program to focus on meteorites and craters

Total Solar Eclipse pictured.

Total solar eclipse to be discussed at Penn State Behrend

In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected gravitational waves (pictured).

Astronomy talk will trace gravitational waves from crashing black holes

Virgo Cluster

Virgo Cluster of galaxies to be discussed at Penn State Behrend

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