This holiday season the MSUM Planetarium is showing “Season of Light,” a Loch Ness Productions special program that explores the history of holiday traditions. The presentation runs from Nov. 29 to Dec. 23. Showings will be held Mondays and Thursdays at 7 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Learn about holiday customs including the burning […]
Dave Weinrich, MSUM Planetarium and President of the International Planetarium Society (IPS), recently gave an invited talk at the Gwacheon National Science Museum in Seoul, South Korea. It is hoped that the country’s planetarium professionals will organize and become IPS’ 23rd regional affiliate.
The MSUM Planetarium is teaming up with the Society of Physics Students to treat the public with science tricks this Halloween season at “Spooky Science Night” on Saturday, Oct. 27, starting at 6 p.m. “Spooky Science Night” will feature some interactive science demonstrations by SPS members from 6 to 8 p.m. in Bridges Hall room 164, across from the Planetarium. […]
By: Ryan Johnson, INFORUM MOORHEAD – While it was built with valid scientific goals in mind, the premise of the six-wheeled, 2,000-pound Curiosity rover and the engineering feat that landed it on Mars early Monday could strike some as more science fiction than reality. “We have landed a nuclear-powered truck on another world,” said Juan Cabanela, astronomy professor at Minnesota […]
David Weinrich, MSUM’s Planetarium Director, welcomed attendees at the opening ceremony of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) meeting in Baton Rouge, on July 23. Weinrich is serving as the president of IPS, and in this role appeared on local TV and radio spots prior to the start of the conference. The conference attracted 701 attendees, representing 44 U.S. states and 44 […]