July 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm 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... Free
September 1, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Universe in a Room: The Story of The Planetarium UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Travel back 100 years in this full dome planetarium show about this wonderful invention! Throughout history, humanity has been fascinated by the night sky, and various mechanical models were built, ultimately leading to a magical innovation, to dynamically represent the starry sky. In ancient Greece, celestial globes, orreries, and astrolabes were created to simulate the... Free
October 20, 2024 @ 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, 2024 @ 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
November 1, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CANCELLED: How Can we Find Other Life in the Universe? Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Please note, the 11/1 Badger Talks presentation in the CBB will be rescheduled and is CANCELLED for this evening due to a family emergency. 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... Free
November 3, 2024 @ 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, 2024 @ 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, 2024 @ 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
November 24, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Touching the Edge of the Universe UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Touching the Edge of the Universe tells the story of astronomy from the time of Galileo and his simple optical telescope to today’s sophisticated space astronomy missions. Created using the latest technology for full dome and analogue planetariums; shot on location at the European Space Agency’s Main Control Room in Darmstadt, Germany. The show features... Free
January 26 @ 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
January 26 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street in Big Bird's Adventure: One World, One Sky. Follow along with Big Bird, Elmo, and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, as they take you on a journey of discovery to learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the Sun, and the... Free
February 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Supermassive Black Holes: Uncovering the Invisible UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Shed light on the physics of black hole formation! Leading scientists in observational and theoretical studies of black holes and galaxies, industrial experts in cutting-edge big technologies, and professionals in science dissemination have been brought together to set up research projects which will combine the latest state-of-the-art observations, numerical simulations and innovative analytic tools to... Free