04 July 2012
The Planetarium Science Center (PSC) cordially invite you to attend the “Ramadan Crescent” event on 19 July 2012, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Small Theatre and Plaza at 6:00 pm. The event starts with a lecture by PSC Astronomer, Dr. Omar Fikry, accompanied by live observation by Mr. Aymen Ibrahem, PSC Senior Astronomy Specialist, to introduce the audience to the marvels of the skies.
25 June 2012
This week, world leaders gather for a momentous occasion — the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. Will it be a success? In my opinion, yes. To be sure, the negotiations have been lengthy. Even now there is more disagreement than agreement on the details of the so-called “outcome document” that will emerge. Yet that will not be the defining measure. Far more important is what the Rio conference has already accomplished. And that is to build a global movement for change.
21 June 2012
Eratosthenes festivity is an annual event organized by the History of Science Museum on the 21st of June every year since 2003; the day of Summer Solstice in Alexandria and Aswan. Eratosthenes, the Greek scientist and the third librarian of the Ancient Library of Alexandria, was the first scientist who measure the circumference of the Erath before 2000 years ago in these two cities.
06 June 2012
On Wednesday, 6 June 2012, the world celebrated a rare phenomenon known as the Venus transit. During this transit, Venus is seen as a black dot moving slowly across the Sun’s disk. Venus transits occur in pairs of events separated by about eight years, and these pairs recur every 105.5 or 121.5 years. The reason for the rarity of Venus transits is that the plane of Venus’ orbit is tilted at a small angle to Earth’s orbital plane.
28 May 2012
The Planetarium Science Center (PSC) proudly announces the selection of Omar Obeya, an Intel-BASEF young scientist, as regional finalist in Google Science Fair 2012. Obeya, a grade-11 student at Victoria College, Alexandria, has participated in Intel-BASEF 2012 in the “Computer Sciences” category; his project “Improving Search in Sorted Arrays” won the “Best in Category” award, as well as a special award Certificate of “Intel Excellence” in Computer Science. Obeya’s project aims at improving computerized life through introducing a memory and time saving searching method.
09 May 2012
The PSC invites children and youth, 4 – 16 years of age, to join the Center's Summer Program. The Program includes a variety of activities such as: practical experiments, scientific contests, lectures, Planetarium and Auditorium shows.
15 April 2012
The GLOBE at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations to a website from a computer or smart phone. Light pollution threatens not only our “right to starlight”, but can affect energy consumption, wildlife and health. The GLOBE at Night campaign has run for two weeks each winter/spring for the last six years. People in 115 countries have contributed 66,000 measurements, making GLOBE at Night one of the most successful light pollution awareness campaigns.
13 April 2012
The PSC is proud to announce the participation of one of its most talented family members in the successful and popular TV show “Arabs Got Talent”. Abdallah Casper, a Programs and Events Specialist at the PSC since 2006, is the creator of the fascinating Super Science Show, one of the most successful and innovative programs conducted by the Center. We invite you all to watch our colleague, Abdallah Casper, on Friday, 13 April 2012, to enjoy his marvelous experiments and experience science in an interactive way.
12 April 2012
The Planetarium Science center (PSC) organized the Science Olympiad for the third year on the 11th and 12th of April 2012. The Science Olympiad is an academic competition designed for preparatory school students to learn and apply science
28 March 2012
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) organized the sixth Science Festivity on 28-29 March 2012. The overarching theme of SF 2012 was “Natural Sciences: Earth and Sun”. The event raised the public awareness of the importance of saving our limited natural resources, and preserving the environment through knowledge.