Image: NASA
Astronomy Day
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 25, First Floor
Join us for Astronomy Day at the Anchorage Museum and celebrate the universe through hands-on experiences, free planetarium programs and community partnerships.
Observe the sun with solar telescopes, imagine life on an exoplanet, and experience spacecraft missions in a new way through augmented reality.
Included with admission. Skip the line and RSVP today.
SCHEDULE
ACTIVITIES: 10 AM-2PM
CoLab: Design a 3-D alien, or create an Exoplanet
Art Lab: Anchorage School District student space models
Atrium: Astronomy Photographer of the Year slideshow
Front Lawn: Solar telescopes w/ Southcentral Alaska Astronomical Society
PLANETARIUM SHOWS: 10:15 AM-4:30 PM
Free. Tickets are first come, first served at the front desk or planetarium booth in the Discovery Center.
10:15 am: Solar Quest
10:45 am: Sizing Up Space
11:15 am: Galaxies
11:45 am: Moonbase
12:30 pm: Cartoons in the Dome: Dinosaurs Under the Northern Lights
1:30 pm: A Place Like No Other
2:30 pm: Whale Super Highway
3:30 pm: Unseen Earth
4:30 pm: Global Soundscapes
SCIENTIST SPOTLIGHT: 4:30 PM-6 PM
Third Floor & Discovery Center, Art Lab
Join us for a scientific discussion of life beyond Earth featuring Travis Rector, PhD, a professor in the physics and astronomy department at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
After visiting the Cold War to the Cosmos exhibition and experiencing what conditions might be like on the surface of Mars, participants will learn about the key geologic features that have scientists thinking about the possibility of past and/or present life on the Red Planet.
Discover the parameters that allow life to thrive and how scientists are searching for those signs throughout the solar system and across the universe. Registration is required.
$15 per person; $14.50 for museum members.
SPECIAL GUESTS
Kurt Riemann
Talk to artist Kurt Riemann about the Mars room in Cold War to the Cosmos, now on view on the Third Floor. Then, join a Mars ‘silent disco’ and listen to the sounds of space.
Eagle River Nature Center
Eagle River Nature Center will host a table with information about summer and winter astronomy nights at their facilities.
University of Alaska Anchorage Planetarium
UAA Planetarium joins us to highlight UAA astronomy programs and share resources about space.