Event Series Asian Celebrations

Asian Celebrations

Experience celestial celebrations across Asia, from the Chinese New Year to the Japanese Spring Blossom festival. Each date features a different guest speaker who will talk about their country, culture, and connections to the night sky. We’ll take questions at …

Event Series Asian Celebrations

Asian Celebrations

Experience celestial celebrations across Asia, from the Chinese New Year to the Japanese Spring Blossom festival. Each date features a different guest speaker who will talk about their country, culture, and connections to the night sky. We’ll take questions at …

Bizarre Black Holes

Join black hole expert and senior member of the LIGO scientific collaboration, Dr. Jolien Creighton, as he dissects major discoveries from the last 5 years related to black holes, gravitational waves, and neutron stars. Sign Up Here! If you enjoy …

Free

Glorious Galaxies

While our own solar system is a mere speck in our galaxy that is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, there are even more enormous galaxies in existence. In fact, there are over 170 billion galaxies in the observable universe. …

NASA’s SOFIA: The World’s Largest Moving Observatory

Selected by NASA to be an Airborne Astronomy Ambassador, UWM Planetarium Director Dr. Jean Creighton spent 20 hours in the stratosphere on NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)—the largest moving observatory in the world. Dr. Creighton will share her …

Full Moon Canoe – Led by NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador

Join Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center and UWM Planetarium Director, Jean Creighton, to see the city and the full Moon as you never have before! While enjoying the full Moon above you’ll learn about our nearest celestial neighbor, other exotic moons …

$30 – $40

Full Moon Hike – Led by NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador

Join Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center and UWM Planetarium Director, Jean Creighton, for a hike through Riverside Park. While enjoying the full Moon above you’ll learn about our nearest celestial neighbor, other exotic moons in the solar system, and more intriguing …

Free – $14

(VIRTUAL) Shooting Stars and Meteor Showers 

Many know shooting stars for the striking trails of light they give off, but their name is misleading since they are neither shooting nor stars. These light trails, also known as meteors, are fragments of either comets or asteroids. Find …