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Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope

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

Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope show follows two students as they interact with a female astronomer at a local star party. Along the way, the students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo's modifications to a child's spyglass — using two small pieces of glass — to the launch of...

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Cosmic Castaways

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

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...

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Making of a Star and Her Entourage

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

The Making of a Star and Her Entourage traces the evolution of humankind’s understanding of the universe. Discover the long journey beginning with the Earth-centered model of the universe in which the Sun was considered a planet to our current understanding that the Sun is a star centered in the Solar System and is one...

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

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

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...

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Out There – The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds

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

For thousands of years, humankind thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. Thanks to our curiosity, imagination and urge to explore, we now know that planets like our Earth are not special in the cosmos. The Sun is just one ordinary star among hundreds of billions in our galaxy, the Milky Way....

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From Earth to the Universe

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

The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths, and awe for as long as there have been people. A desire to comprehend the universe may well be humanity's oldest shared intellectual experience. Yet only recently have we truly begun to grasp our place in the vast cosmos....

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The Hot and Energetic Universe

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

The planetarium documentary “The Hot and Energetic Universe” presents with the use of Immersive Visualizations and real images the achievements of the modern astronomy, the most advanced terrestrial and orbital observatories, the basic principles electromagnetic radiation and the natural phenomena related to the High Energy Astrophysics.  This full dome film immerses viewers in real life...

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Forward! To the Moon!

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

NASA’s 21st century Artemis program, named after the Greek moon goddess and twin of Apollo, is the next step in our mission to explore the universe and land the first woman and person of color on the surface of the Moon. Using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before, NASA uses what...

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Spark: The Universe in Us

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

Journey across space and time as we explore the remnants of stellar explosions, tracing the movements of elements through our galaxy to understand how stars live, die, and seed the Universe with the elements to build new generations of stars, planets, and life. Narrated by Diego Luna, the California Academy of Sciences’ all-new, original planetarium...

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Death of the Dinosaurs

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

What killed the dinosaurs? See how these giants lived and survived on the earth millions of years ago and even watch the cataclysmic event that lead to their ultimate extinction. Featuring animations, on-site locations of dinosaur fossil discoveries, and even Houston Museum of Natural Science world-class Hall of Paleontology, you’ll feel like you are right...

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Lars, the Little Polar Bear

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

What happens when a frisky little polar bear named Lars ventures out on the first day of spring? He explores his Arctic home, meets new friends, and saves some endangered whales. Children will learn about how real polar bears live, why they have small ears and tails, what they eat, and how the melting of...

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