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Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This fulldome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain. Funded through a generous...

Explore!

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Have you ever wondered how our modern spacecraft can navigate quickly and accurately to Earth orbit and beyond? Find out in EXPLORE! Humanity has always had a fascination with the stars — from ancient stargazers and astrologers to the breakthrough discoveries of Nicolaus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler. EXPLORE begins with a look at how scholars and...

Unveiling the Invisible Universe

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Winner of Best Full Dome Film at the 2021 Baikal International Film Festival, Unveiling the Invisible Universe uses vivid, dynamic imagery to survey 13 billion light years of space observation from Galileo to the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. For thousands of years we have observed light coming from the night sky with our...

Back to the Moon for Good

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Back To The Moon For Good begins with a tour through the history of lunar exploration, tracing back to the 1960s and 1970s. We hear from some of the teams racing to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon and win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The audience is taken on a successful launch, landing and...

Phantom of the Universe

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

This planetarium show journeys across space and time, speeding alongside particles before they collide in a visually stunning explosion of light and sound. Then, learn how scientist around the world are collaborating to track down dark matter… the hunt is on. Narrated by Academy Award winner, Tilda Swinton with sound by an Academy Award winning...

Magic Globe

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Using motion capture to bring characters to life, this beautifully produced fulldome feature film has a child-centred story that will enchant family audiences. On vacation at her grandpa’s, a little girl Mia accidentally discovers a mysterious piece of astronomical machinery. Edek, Mia’s eccentric uncle, tricks the girl into using the tool’s secret powers to change...

The Sun, Our Living Star

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

The Sun has shone on our world for four and a half billion years. The light that warms our skin today has been felt by every person who has ever lived. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The...

From Earth to the Universe

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

This voyage through space and time conveys, through sparkling sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science. Viewers can revel in the splendor of the worlds in the Solar System and our scorching Sun. The show takes the audience out to the colorful birthplaces and burial grounds of stars, and still further out...

Cosmic Castaways

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

There are places in the Universe where the night sky has no constellations. No Orion, no Saucepan. Nothing but a few lonely, far away stars and some faint, ghostly patches of light. Almost all stars lie within the crowded boundaries of huge galaxies, travelling with their brothers and sisters as a vast galactic family. But...

Two Small Pieces of Glass

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Telescopes have advanced considerably since Galileo's time. Humanity now has large observatories and even a couple in outer space. Two Small Pieces Of Glass shows how telescopes work; and how astronomers have used them to scrutinize the structures within our cosmos. Complemented with spectacular imagery of Saturn's rings, beautiful stellar nurseries and the spiral structure...

Dark Matter Mystery, Exploring a Cosmic Secret

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

What keeps Galaxies together? What are the building blocks of the Universe? What makes the Universe look the way it looks today? Researchers all around the world try to answer these questions. We know today that approximately a quarter of the Universe is filled with a mysterious glue: Dark Matter. We know that it is...

Sky Tellers

UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI

Explore the mysteries of our Universe with Sky Tellers! Ten Native American myths and legends investigate the reason for day and Night, why we have seasons, the origin of the stars and other wondrous phenomena of our night sky. Each narrative is accompanied by the story that scientists tell today. This is truly a story...