KU Portable Planetarium
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Winter Welcome 2025
The KU Planeterium's schedule on Wednesday, Jan 22 during KU's Winter Welcome 2025 has shows at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm (every hour, on the hour). The planetarium is on the ground floor of Slawson Hall (Slawson G174). Come join us!
Meanwhile, explore some of the other astronomy activities going on around here:
Hawk Week 2024
The KU Planeterium's also did shows on Tuesday, Aug 27 during KU's Hawk Week 2024: at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm (every hour, on the hour). The planetarium is on the ground floor of Slawson Hall (Slawson G174); our schedule was:
The Hawk Week 2024 schedule was:- 12:00pm -- Out there, the Quest For Extrasolar Worlds
- 1:00pm -- Distant Worlds, Alien Life
- 2:00pm -- Phantom of the Universe - Dark Matter
- 3:00pm -- The Dark Matter Mystery
- 4:00pm -- Show title TBD
- 5:00pm -- A Tour of the Solar System and Beyond
- 6:00pm -- Day and Night: A Tour of the Sky
- 7:00pm -- The Sun: Our Living Star
- 8:00pm -- Supermassive Black Holes: Uncovering the Invisible
Other Local Astronomy
- Astronomy Associates of Lawrence (old site archived here).