Last August, NASA’s revolutionary Curiosity rover made a perilous landing on Mars. In the last year, it has taken some amazing photographs and bitten into the surface of the Red Planet. The program “Martian Curiosities” at the MSUM Planetarium Saturday, August 10 at 7 p.m. will celebrate the landing of Curiosity. The audience will get to look at some of […]
If you feel strongly about which planet is your favorite, come cast your vote at the Favorite Planet Competition Thursday, June 20, at the MSUM Planetarium. The Favorite Planet Competition is the first children’s public show of the season. The doors open at 10:40 a.m. Special guests Kristin Brevik and Carrie Leopold, Solar System Ambassadors through NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s […]
Saturday night, accessorize with your finest bath towel and head to the MSUM Planetarium for a goofy night under the stars. The Minnesota State University-Moorhead Planetarium is hosting an event for intergalactic hitchhikers at 7 p.m. for Towel Day, May 25. Towel Day (towelday.org) is an annual memorial day for fans of Douglas Adams, author of the sci-fi comedy series, […]
Eighth graders from Horizon Middle School in Moorhead will be on campus today from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Students will be attending several science outreach activities: a Planetarium program, working with college students from Physics, Chemistry and Biology and navigating a GPS course on the mall. If you are walking through the mall area during this time period and see pails […]
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 […]