April 2022
A tour of April night skies, followed by the fulldome planetarium production Audio Universe: Tour of the Solar System.
Experience the Solar System like never before – by traveling on a spacecraft that can turn the objects in space into sound!
The audience of this stunning 35 minute show are…
Come join the WSU Physics and Astronomy club as we attempt to craft devices that will keep an egg from cracking after dropping from the second floor! But here’s the catch – no parachutes! Lots of fun for both WSU students, young kids, and the family!
A tour of April night skies, followed by the fulldome planetarium production Audio Universe: Tour of the Solar System.
For thousands of years the humans observed the light coming from the night sky with their eyes. In the beginning of the 17th century, the invention of the telescope by Galileo revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe.
For thousands of years the humans observed the light coming from the night sky with their eyes. In the beginning of the 17th century, the invention of the telescope by Galileo revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Suzanne White Brahmia, Associate Professor at University of Washington. Dr. Brahmia will present their talk, “Measuring and Enhancing Quantitative Reasoning in Physics Instruction”.
Our docent will give you a guided tour of April night skies. This is followed by The Dark Matter Mystery a fulldome production.
What keeps galaxies together? What are the building blocks of the Universe? What makes the Universe look the way it looks today? Researchers all around the world…
This planetarium show takes you on the biggest quest of contemporary astrophysics. You will see why we know that dark matter exists, and how this search is one of the most challenging and exciting searches science has to offer. Join the scientists on their hunt for dark matter with experiments in space and deep underground. Will they be able to solve the dark matter mystery?
Although there are significant outstanding issues, our understanding of the formation of the Sun’s planetary system is well developed. In particular, the “planetesimal accretion model”, where most of the solids in the protoplanetary disk were in solid bodies of roughly 1 km or larger, offers a foundation for understanding the formation of the terrestrial planets, the outer planets, and the populations of small bodies seen in the present day Solar System.
“From the Earth to the Universe” is a stunning 30-minute voyage through time and space that conveys, through an arresting combination of sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science.
“From the Earth to the Universe” is a stunning 30-minute voyage through time and space that conveys, through an arresting combination of sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science.
Perturbed angular correlation (PAC) spectroscopy measures the hyperfine interaction experienced by radioactive nuclei that serve as probes in molecular or solid-state systems under investigation. One application of PAC is to measure the electric field gradient (EFG) experienced by probe nuclei in molecules.
“Distant Worlds – Alien Life?” explores the possibility of life on other planets. It gives the limits of biology as we know it, then intersects those constraints with what we know about Milky Way exoplanets. Imaginative visualizations of possible life forms are animated in a fulldome experience.