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 […]
Need a last minute gift for that special someone? Looking for something other than the typical flowers and candy? Well, fortunately for you stars and romance go hand in hand. Enchant your date this Valentine’s Day with the help of the MSUM Planetarium! Witness the beauty of the cosmos as we observe the charming nature of our solar system. Showtimes […]
Professor of Photography in the School of Art Carlos Rene Pacheco will have work from his in-progress series titled Flatland in The Art of Planetary Science exhibition at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona on February 10-12. Can’t make it all the way to Tucson? Be sure to stop by MSUM’s very own planetarium to […]
On Saturday, Feb. 4 the MSUM Planetarium partnered with Prairie Public and sponsored by Moore Engineering to bring the 3rd Annual Stars of PBS to campus. The event featured the planetarium show, “One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure,” showing every 45 minutes throughout the day and activities ranging from playing with light and shadows, creating mini-planetariums, boom whackers, dippin dots, trips to the moon, and others. More […]
Assistant Professor of Photography Carlos Rene Pacheco has photographs from his in-progress body of work titled Flatland on display now in the Planetarium on campus. Inspired by the near unbroken flatness of rural Minnesota and North Dakota along a horizontal plane, Flatland is a series of photographs, evoking alien landscapes, that explores the textures and space of the Midwest, from […]