Six MSUM students volunteered at the 10th annual Dakota Nights astronomy festival at Theodore Roosevelt National Park Sep 16-18, 2022. They set up several telescope for evening star viewing and gave visual tours of the constellations using laser pointers. Five of the students, Alex Niemi, Emily Watson, Izzy DiOrio, Mara DeRung, and Tanner Weyer, have majors in the Department of […]
MSUM students Mara DeRung and Emily Watson submitted observations of an exoplanet transit to NASA’s TESS mission as part of the ground follow-up group. A transit occurs when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of the star, briefly dimming its light. The green line in the graph below shows the tiny dip in brightness of the star as […]
Thursday, April 28 | 3 p.m. | Hagen 325 | Zoom Please join us Thursday, April 28 at 3 p.m. for a special seminar by Dr. Heather Cegla, who was the keynote speaker at the Student Academic Conference a few weeks ago. Dr. Cegla, who graduated from MUSM in 2010 and is currently an assistant professor at the University of […]
Please join us at 3PM on Friday, Apr 22 in HA325 or at the link below for a physics seminar by our very own Dr. Robert Salgado, who has extensive experience developing graphical, hands-on approaches to understanding relativity. Title: Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper… You can count on it. Abstract: We present visual calculations in special relativity using spacetime diagrams […]
There are several Physics and Astronomy-related events this Saturday, April 9, open to the community: Society of Physics Students (SPS) Demo Show, 1PM in LH118: Join us for several demonstrations of physics principles relevant to the new James Webb Space Telescope. Our first in-person demo show since 2019 will include many new demos and hands-on activities. Check the Department of […]