September 21 @ 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... Free
September 28 @ 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... Free
October 5 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Europe to the Stars UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Europe to the Stars takes the viewer on an epic journey behind the scenes at the most productive ground-based observatory in the world, revealing the science, the history, the technology and... Free
October 12 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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... Free
October 12 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Understanding the Basics of the Calendar UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Understanding the basics of the calendar - What is a day? What is a month? What is a year? How are the names of the days related to important objects... Free
October 18 @ 10:00 am - 4:30 pm Homecoming/ Family Day Planetarium Shows UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Make time to enjoy one of the Family Day Planetarium shows available to you! Our schedule for the day is as follows: 10 a.m. “From Earth to the Universe” 11... Free
October 19 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Musica- Why is the Universe Beautiful? UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States This all-ages show in the planetarium presents the idea that art, music, physics and mathematics are fundamentally related and an integral part of the beauty of the Cosmos. With vivid,... Free
October 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Practicing Farewell Chemistry Biology Building 2101 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States As life changes, we find ourselves saying farewell to people, places, activities, and things. What makes a farewell successful? Are there ways to practice saying farewell to make it easier... Free
Featured October 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Badger Talks: 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 two thousand years, and we now possess the tools and techniques necessary to answer it. Assistant Professor... Free
October 26 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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... Free
November 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Cosmic Spectrograph UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Discover spectroscopy, the science of light, and learn how scientists study the Universe by deciphering clues hidden in light arriving from distant objects. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) is an instrument... Free
November 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm 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... Free