Dr. Marianne Mader, Managing Director, Centres for Earth & Space and Fossils & Evolution, Royal Ontario Museum

Join us at the Ontario Science Centre for our monthly Solar Observing on the TELUSCAPE observing pad. This is the area in front of the Science Centre's entrance. We use specialized telescopes that are safe to aim at the Sun. Check our home page on the Friday prior for go/no-go calls as this event is weather dependent.

Moonless night allowing to see deep sky objects

We have a special treat – we’re going to do some science and everyone gets to take part in the grand experiment. The audience will be divided into several teams and each team will construct a chamber that will reveal the presence of cosmic rays and other particles that make up our Universe. Our guest Science Professor will be Ted Rudyk who will supervise the construction of your lab experiment and provide some insight about what you will witness when your lab experiment is ready to unveil. This is going to be a ton of fun! Science is COOL!

Meteor Shower

See the milky way and galaxies with the unaided eye. Point your telescope to find the many dim deep space objects that sprinkle the sky. Away from Toronto's light polution, there is so much to see. We observe from the Long Sault Conservation area, an hour outside of Toronto. We meet around dusk once a month in the parking lot for views only seen in dark sky conditions. We hold this event on the first clear night of our week-long window, so the date and time are determined closer to.

Measuring light pollution of your sky, see www.globeatnight.org

Escape to Planet ROM for the Holidays and come on a planetary odyssey through the Milky Way and beyond. Bring your space gear along for this epic adventure as cosmic wonder and intergalactic activities fill the Museum’s galleries from December 26 to January 3. With close encounters of the hands-on kind including a Mars rover prototype, courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency, a Space Arcade featuring new video games, and a meteorite you can touch, Planet ROM takes you to a galaxy far, far away while keeping your feet firmly planted on Earth.

Showtimes: 7:00pm, 8:00pm, and 9:00pm In 1977 two small probes, Voyager 1 and 2, were launched from Earth with a mission to study the outer solar system. Both spacecraft visited Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 passed by Uranus and Neptune, returning images to Earth which allowed us to make surprising discoveries about these distant planets. Now these probes are entering interstellar space, making them the furthest man-made objects from the Earth!

Come out and join Ylab for a maker night at the DDO. Keep working on your robotics toy hack. Get away from the rest of the world and work on some software (bring your own phone for Internet access. We're working on that.). Bring another project. Maybe get some help on it. Check out the latest on our advanced light sabre engineering. See if you can get one of the 3D printers running. Add to our collective strong backs and weak minds as we move some furniture around and do some work to get the place organised.