Astronomy Day
Astronomy Day - APRIL 5, 2025 from 1-5pm & 7-10pm
Join us for a full day of FREE family-friendly activities and events!
Send a postcard to space, draw an exoplanet, take a tour of CU's scale model solar system, enjoy kid-friendly fulldome shows & star talks, investigate different kinds of light, look through telescopes, plus explore the Sun, its corona, and the solar wind with + more!
Full schedule of shows and activities
- 1:00-5:00PM Explore the ultraviolet coloring room, infrared/light and shadows room, build and launch a model rocket, and look through daytime telescopes at Sommers-Bausch Observatory
- 1:10PM One Sky at Fiske (English)
- 2:05PM Big Astronomy featuring a live talk by research scientists at Fiske (English)
- 3:05PM Hazelnuts: In search of the perfect planetat Fiske (English)
- 3:45PM Stars & Planets/Estrellas y Planetas at Fiske (English & Español)
- 4:20PM Astronomia a Gran Escala: Personas, Lugares, Descubrimientos y una charla en vivo de con ciudadanas científicas en Fiske (Español)
- 7:00-10:00PM Telescopes at SBO Enjoy spectacular views of the cosmos with telescopes at Sommers-Bausch Observatory
- 7:00PM Keynote presentation - The Sun Touches Humanity: The Astrophysics of Our Home in Space with the Craig DeForest, lead of the recently launched NASA PUNCH mission at Fiske --- We live very close to a star. The outer reaches of the Sun itself extend outward into space, as an eternal “solar wind” that fills the solar system and washes over our planet. Join , leader of to learn about how the four PUNCH spacecraft are poised to reveal “space weather” and the tenuous, hypersonic material in the not-so-empty space between planets. (English)
- 8:30PM Stars & Galaxies at Fiske (English) Regular ticket prices apply. 91ý students are admitted FREE with valid Buff OneCard.
- 10:00PM Liquid Sky Kid Cudi Man on the Moon at Fiske (Regular ticket prices apply.)
This event is co-hosted by Fiske Planetarium, Sommers-Bausch Observatory, and and sponsored by NASA’s PUNCH Outreach Project. Team members from local science and education organizations will also be joining us with activities. Explorando Senderos will support monolingual Spanish speakers with language access.
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