December 15, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Season of Light UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Season of Light is an elegant and sophisticated program about the coldest and darkest of seasons — a time which holds some of the warmest and brightest celebrations of the year. This planetarium presentation traces the history and development of many of the world's most endearing holiday customs, all of which involve lighting up the... Free
December 8, 2024 @ 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, detailed descriptions of the spiral designs inherent in natural phenomena such as DNA, sunflowers and galaxies, the concepts of harmony and harmonics resulting from maths... Free
November 24, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Sky Quest UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Sky Quest is a family favorite, telling the story of one woman's quest for astronomy exploration and her childhood dreams of the stars. The educational focus of Sky Quest is to introduce easily observable objects in the night sky with emphasis on finding them and knowing their characteristics. It also stresses the idea that anyone... 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
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
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 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
October 27, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm Magic Globe UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Using motion capture to bring characters to life, this beautifully produced fulldome feature film has a child-centered 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... 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
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 13, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Night of the Titanic UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Experience what it was like to stand on the deck of the doomed ocean liner Titanic the night she sank. "Night of the Titanic" shows the unique conditions in Earth and space that, coupled with human errors, contributed to the sinking of the ship on April 15, 1912. A new Houston Museum of Natural Science... Free
October 6, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Dinosaur Prophecy UWSP | Science Building 2001 Fourth Avenue, Stevens Point, WI, United States Never before have so many types of dinosaurs come to life in full-dome immersive reality. Long before dinosaurs' massive extinction 65 million years ago, many individual species simply disappeared. Visit dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how these creatures lived and died to solve four famous cold cases from the age of the dinosaurs... Free