Archive for 2007

New Things at the Planetarium

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 at 03:32 PM

For visitors to St. Cloud State University’s planetarium, you will find a significant improvement to the planetarium this fall. Currently, the planetarium is closed for the summer for renovation and an upgrade in equipment.
The current star projector is 34 years old. It was designed with technology that was developed in the 50’s and [...]

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Hey! What is that Bright Star near Sunset?

Friday, February 9th, 2007 at 12:48 PM

This reminds me of that quote from the original Star Wars movie, “That’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station.” Well, this is no star but a planet called Venus.
The ancient Greeks called the wandering stars, planētēs, or wanderers. We now use the word planet for these denizens of our solar system.
Venus [...]

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