October 20 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Sun, Our Living Star UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover the secrets of our Sun with never-before-seen images of the Sun’s surface. 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 passage of the Sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was... Free
October 27 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Mars: The Ultimate Voyage UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover the many challenges astronauts will face and how creativity, communication, and collaboration are essential for deep space exploration. This full-dome show takes audiences to the Red Planet. On a two year journey to Mars astronauts will face extraordinary challenges—long distance, a closed environment, isolation, altered gravity, radiation. Witness what it takes to embark on... Free
Featured Featured November 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm How Can we Find Other Life in the Universe? Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Are we alone in the universe? This question has been asked for over 2,000 years, and now we possess the tools and techniques necessary to answer it. Thomas Beatty, assistant professor of astronomy at UW-Madison presents a Badger Talks presentation on the search for life in distant planets using powerful telescopes. Beatty has discovered nine... Free
November 3 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Exoplanets – Discovering New Worlds UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States The modern hunt for exoplanets is an adventure that began in the 20th century. It continues today as astronomers use both ground- and space-based observatories to find planets around other stars. Ultimately, this great age of discovery could lead to the detection of life beyond our solar system. This show tells the story of our... Free
Featured Featured November 10 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Planets of the Solar System (LIVE) UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States We will visit the Sun and the eight planets of the Solar System. Our itinerary will allow us to see our close celestial neighbors in great detail. Join this live presentation, led by associate professor Sebastian Zamfir, director of the Blocher Planetarium and Pejsa Observatory. We will describe these amazing worlds and reveal some of... Free
November 17 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Unveiling the Invisible Universe UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States 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... Free