2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope March 2 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope Two Small Pieces of Glass – The Amazing Telescope show follows two students as they interact with a female astronomer at a local star party. Along the way, the students learn the history of the telescope from Galileo's modifications to a child's spyglass — using two small pieces of glass — to the launch of... Free
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind March 9 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Across Space, Time and Mind Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This fulldome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain. Funded through a generous... Free
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Big Astronomy March 30 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Big Astronomy Big Astronomy or Astronomía a Gran Escala, is a multifaceted research and outreach project, supported by several partners and funded by the National Science Foundation, that showcases the award-winning bilingual planetarium show Big Astronomy: People, Places, Discoveries. The planetarium show transports viewers to Chile where the dark skies and dry, remote setting create ideal conditions for... Free
Featured 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Collection Crawl Featured April 5 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Collection Crawl The Olson Museum of Natural History at UW-Stevens Point invites you to explore all 9 teaching and research collections in this year’s Collection Crawl. A day of hands-on learning and inspiration about the natural world for everyone! This year's crawl will feature the Geology Collection. Visit our natural science collections across three UW-Stevens Point buildings,... Free
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Sun, Our Living Star April 6 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Sun, Our Living Star Discover the secrets of our Sun with never-before-seen images of the Sun’s surface. It is our nearest star and our planet’s powerhouse, the source of the energy that drives our winds, our weather and all life. The passage of the Sun’s fiery disc across the sky — day by day, month by month — was... Free