Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

Mars: The Ultimate Voyage
2023-08-05 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-08-04 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-08-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-07-29 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | GSK Fulldome Theater

Phantom of the Universe
2023-08-05 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-07-29 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

The Sun: Our Living Star
2023-08-05 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Magic Tree House Space Mission
2023-08-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-08-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-08-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-07-29 10:30 - 11:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Cosmic Colors
2023-08-04 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-08-02 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis
2023-08-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-08-02 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Astronaut
2023-08-03 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-08-01 15:00 - 16:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Forward! To the Moon
2023-08-03 13:30 - 14:30, 2023-08-01 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

We Are Stars
2023-08-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-08-01 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Earth, Moon and Sun
2023-08-03 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-08-01 10:30 - 11:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Carolina Science Cafe | The Dark Side of the Universe
2023-08-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Gizmo Brew Works, 157 E Franklin St #100, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514, United States
Join us on the first Tuesday of every month for Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center’s free, current science awareness program. For this month, we will be joined by Adrienne Erickcek to learn about dark energy and what that means for how our universe operates.

Designed for adults, this program explores the science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines.

Observations of the oldest light in the Universe and other astronomical measurements indicate that only 5% of the current energy content of the Universe is made of elements found on the periodic table. The other 95% is composed of dark matter and dark energy: dark matter is responsible for the growth of galaxies, while dark energy shoves galaxies apart at an accelerating rate. I will discuss how we infer the existence of dark matter and dark energy and how we hope to learn more about these key drivers of cosmic evolution.

A simulated image of the first dark matter structures to form in the universe.

About the Speaker:

Adrienne Erickcek joined the UNC physics and astronomy department in 2013 after completing a joint postdoctoral fellowship at the Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She developed an interest in cosmology while an undergraduate student at Princeton University, and she went on to receive her Ph.D. in cosmology from Caltech. For the past several years, her research has focused on the first dark matter structures, and in 2018 she was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to investigate how to use dark matter to probe the evolution of the Universe during its first second.

Designed for adults, this program explores science topics making national and international headlines and offers the chance to meet the experts behind the headlines. The Carolina Science Café will be hosted at Gizmo Brew Works on Tuesday, August 1st, starting at 6:00 p.m.

You do not need to register…just show up!

Carolina Skies
2023-07-30 16:30 - 17:30, 2023-07-29 16:30 - 17:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Mysteries of Your Brain
2023-07-30 15:00 - 16:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Solar System Odyssey
2023-07-30 13:30 - 14:30 | GSK Fulldome Theater

Galileo: The Power of the Telescope
2023-07-29 12:00 - 13:00 | GSK Fulldome Theater

The Sky Through Their Eyes - Special Member Screening
2023-07-28 17:30 - 18:30
