WSU Planetarium: Phantom of the Universe

About the event

A docent will point out night sky highlights and upcoming astronomical events. This is followed by a fulldome video presentation.

Phantom of the Universe gives an overview of one of the greatest cosmic mysteries of our time: the presence and nature of dark matter. We don’t know what it is because it emits no light, but its gravity influences the rotations and clustering properties of galaxies. This movie focuses on earth-based experiments to try to discover the elusive, unpredicted subatomic particle that makes up dark matter – if indeed that’s the nature of it.