Friday, March 3 | 3 p.m. | Planetarium NASA announced last week they have discovered a star system containing planets with the potential to support life. The TRAPPIST-1 system is comprised of a red dwarf star and seven roughly Earth sized planets. Three of these planets exist in the “habitable zone” meaning they have the right conditions to have water […]
Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, and Juan Cabanela, Physics/Astronomy Faculty, have been awarded an American Astronomical Society (AAS) grant to support 2017 Great North American Eclipse outreach. The grant will include partnerships with YES School, FM Boys & Girls Club, YMCA, CHARISM, and the public libraries of Fargo and West Fargo. It will support the purchase of solar scopes and eclipse model kits […]
Friday, Feb. 17 | 3 p.m. | 325 Hagen Hall Students who will be working on their Senior Projects this Fall will present their proposals for their senior projects. They include:
Friday, Feb. 3 | 3 p.m. | Hagen 325 Speaker: Dr. Matthew Craig The physics underlying climate change has been well understood for over 100 years. Measurements taken over that period clearly demonstrate that the temperature of the Earth is increasing and that the increase is largely driven by human-produced carbon dioxide. While data from the most recent IPCC report […]