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WAYNE — Wayne State College’s free planetarium and laser shows will continue Friday and Saturday, March 27-28, in the Fred G. Dale Planetarium. Admission is free and open to the public, but free-will donations are accepted.
The planetarium has been upgraded with a new single-lens ultra-highdef projection system and the immersive Digistar Astronomy software. The planetarium has once again become the most technologically advanced and educationally versatile planetarium in the region.
On Friday, March 27, the planetarium show “Seeing! A Photon’s Journey Through Time, Space, and Mind” will be at 7 p.m., followed by the laser show “Laser Women Who Rock!” at 8 p.m.
On Saturday, March 28, the planetarium show “Edge of Darkness” is at 1 p.m., followed by the laser show “Laser Pink Floyd” at 2 p.m.
Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before traveling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This full-dome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain.
“Edge of Darkness” features amazing scenes of places never before seen, gathered by key space missions, culminating with groundbreaking discoveries in 2015. It features a spectacular flight though the great cliffs on comet 67P, a close look at the fascinating bright “lights” on Ceres, and the first ever closeups of dwarf binary planet Pluto/Charon and its moons.
