Moorhead Department of Physics and Astronomy alumna Madelyn Madsen, class of 2023, and Professor Emeritus Matt Craig are part of a team that discovered 30 planets around other stars. Data taken by Madelyn at the Paul P. Feder Observatory at the MSUM Regional Science Center in summer 2020 was one of many data sets used to confirm that the object […]
The MSUM student Astronomy Club and the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club are hosting a sky viewing open house at the MSUM Regional Science Center on Friday, Sep 27 from 7:30 -10:30PM. Lots of telescopes will be set up for you to look at things like Saturn, a blue and gold pair of stars, as many nebulas as your heart desires and […]
Join the MSUM student astronomy club and the FM Astronomy Club for an evening of night sky viewing on Fri, Apr 5, from 8-11PM, weather permitting, at MSUM’s Regional Science Center adjacent to Buffalo River State Park. The spring is the best time to see several faint objects in the nighttime sky; several folks from both clubs will have telescopes […]
Join the MSUM Planetarium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Regional Science Center, along with the Fargo-Moorhead Astronomy Club for a couple of activities on Monday, Apr 8, related to the eclipse from noon to 3PM. Planetarium: live stream of the eclipse from a location along the path of totality. Parking lot adjacent to the Center for Business, weather permitting: […]
Mara DeRung, a Sustainability major and Astronomy minor, presented a poster at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, held Nov 2-4 in Boston, MA. Her presentation “Exoplanet Coding Revisions and Exo-Planet Candidate data” described work done at MSUM over the last three years to make analysis of data taken in support of a NASA […]