Taipei Astronomical Museum

September’s night sky is packed with highlights! The most anticipated event—a total lunar eclipse—will occur in the early hours of September 8 (Monday), accompanied by Saturn at opposition, Venus near the Beehive Cluster, and the Moon passing close to the Pleiades. Together, these phenomena　will make September’s summer night skies particularly lively and spectacular. The month’s centerpiece, the total lunar eclipse, takes place from 00:27 to 03:56 on September 8, lasting 3 hours and 29 minutes in total. During the hour-long total phase, the Moon will take on an eerie dark-red hue. This is the first fully visible total lunar eclipse since 2018, and the entire event can be enjoyed with the naked eye from any open location with a clear view to the southwest. On September 1 (Monday) around 3 a.m., Venus will rise in the northeast alongside the Beehive Cluster (M44), with the two separated by only about 1 degree. At magnitude –3.9, Venus will shine brilliantly next to the cluster’s dozens of faint stars—a perfect pairing to observe through binoculars.On September 13 (Saturday), from midnight until dawn, the last-quarter Moon will pass near the Pleiades (M45), also known as the Seven Sisters and often called the ‘celestial jewel of the night sky.’On September 21 (Sunday), Saturn reaches opposition, its closest approach to Earth this year, offering the best opportunity to admire the planet often called the most beautiful in the Solar System. On that night, Saturn’s rings will be tilted by only 1.8°, appearing through a telescope almost like a fine thread slicing across Saturn. The rings’ tilt remains minimal throughout the year, shrinking to just 0.4° on November 24, when the rings will nearly vanish from view.For more details on these and other September sky events, please visit the Taipei Astronomical Museum website.

Nobita and his friends heard Suneo boast about how moving the starry sky he saw in Hawaii was. Nobita, who had never seen a starry sky, felt dejected and asked Doraemon for help. Doraemon took out a secret gadget called the "Travel Projector," which allows people to experience the feeling of traveling while indoors, and projected the Hawaiian starry sky into Nobita's room. Doraemon told that since ancient times, people have looked up at the stars, thought about them, and created various "models of the universe" in an attempt to understand the universe.To see what the universe truly looks like, Nobita and his friends enter the "Celestial Globe," which perfectly reproduces the real universe through miniature replication. They embark on a journey through space aboard a spaceship. However, they get too close to a black hole and face the danger of being pulled in! Will Nobita and his friends be able to return to Earth safely!? Screening Date: July 2, 114 to June 30, 115Duration: about 36 minutes 

A second golden age of space has quietly dawned on us, with new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species. In the quest to make human spaceflight accessible within in a decade, not a century, and ultimately affordable to ordinary citizens, leading innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers, and daredevils are locked in a race into the unknown.  From self-assembling habitats, commercial space stations, launching rockets without fuel to building the Lunar Gateway to deep space, history is in the making as we speak.