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Got a curious young scientist on your birthday gift list? Delight them with Science Kits from the Casper Planetarium. The Green Rocket kit lets them use a recycled magazine and 2 plastic bottles to blast a paper rocket up to 80 feet in the air. Build a 5-inch generator that…
Tour the cosmos with astrophysicist Dr. Stacy Palen as your guide! Cosmic Journey tells the story of the universe from a uniquely human perspective. Drift through images from the Hubble Space Telescope and other NASA Great Observatories in a fulldome experience like no other.
Tuesday – Friday 4:15 recommend for ages 6 and up Join mankind’s first space probe as it journeys outside our solar system to the many new worlds astronomers are discovering beyond. Visit gas giants caught in a deadly dance with their host stars, frozen rogue planets hurling through space, molten…
Look for Mars in the night sky after sunset. Look for a reddish-orange dot in the Southern sky. Mars is visible now and was at it’s brightest in October. We will be able to see Mars most of the winter. Visit our Mars display here at the Planetarium. What TV…
Euler’s (pronounced “oilers”) Disk is a scientific educational toy. It demonstrates the dynamics of a spinning and rolling disk on a flat or slightly concave surface, using a carefully calibrated disk that spins for a much longer time than ordinary disks (such as spinning a coin on a tabletop). It’s…
The citizen science website Zooniverse has a new Mars project that you can help with from home! The Planet Four project asks you to examine photos like the one above in order to identify patterns that are caused by geysers of gas erupting through the southern polar ice cap on…
The Casper Planetarium’s gift shop is loaded with all kinds of toys: tops and slinkies, super balls, goos, slimes, and putties, kaleidoscopes, magnetic sculptures, squish balls, splat aliens … a universe of choices! We have one entire display case that have items that are $2.50 or less! Or thinking bigger…
The Casper Planetarium does more than show programs created by others. We create original programs in-house which are shown in planetariums all over the world, and much of that work is done by student interns under the previous direction of retired supervisor, Michele Wistisen and current Planetarium Supervisor Rod Kennedy.…
We have lots of cool putties in our gift shop … magnetic putty, color-changing putty, clear glass putty, UV-reactive putty, glow-in-the-dark putty, shimmery metallic putty, and more. Sculpt it, splat it, twist it, roll it … but please, don’t do what the guy in this video did!