Chick Keller will share relationships between climate and astronomy during a presentation Sept. 22 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy photoPEEC News:
Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is planning a special planetarium show and presentation by Chick Keller at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22.
PEEC is also bringing in a new full-dome film Aurora Storm that will play in at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 23 and 24, in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium. The Saturday and Sunday screenings include three films, Aurora Storm, SunStruck and SolarQuest.
What are the relationships between astronomy cycles and our climate? What can we expect to change in the future? Friday, Sept. 22, Dr. Charles (Chick) Keller will lead a discussion and exploration of these and other questions related to global warming and the spaces beyond our atmosphere. This special planetarium show will take place in the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium.
Chick Keller has spent about 25 years studying climate change and interacting with the leading scientists in the field. He has written several lengthy review articles trying to make sense of the hundreds of scientific papers on aspects of the subject.
Aurora Storm, playing Sept. 23 and 24 along with SunStruck and Solar Quest, is a NASA-funded full-dome show about the captivating northern lights. This new film reveals the causes of the aurorae and explains how humans who live beneath their shimmering light are inspired by what they see. This show melds science and technology with literature and a multicultural look at the aurorae. The audience will see the dazzling aurorae through the eyes of scientists, photographers, and local inhabitants who share their traditional views of this phenomenon. Aurora Storm was produced by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the University of Alaska Museum of the North, and contains unique wide-angle time-lapse photography of several different auroras.
SunStruck takes the audience back to the beginning of time to experience the birth of the Sun. How can the Sun support life? How does the Sun threaten life as we know it. Will the Sun’s energy will one day fade away? If so, why? SunStruck, a NASA funded planetarium show by Michigan Science Center, sheds light on these and other questions about our the center of our solar system.
Solar Quest reveals the role of the Solar Dynamics Observatory and how scientists are using the observatory to help identify and predict severe space weather. This full-dome planetarium film was produced by the Buhl Planetarium.
Solar Quest reveals the role of the Solar Dynamics Observatory and how scientists are using the observatory to help identify and predict severe space weather. This full-dome planetarium film was produced by the Buhl Planetarium.
For more information about these and future planetarium shows, please visit www.peecnature.or g/planetarium. To reserve tickets, call 505.662.0460.
The Los Alamos Nature Center will be open regular hours this month and in October: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as well as 1-4 p.m. Sundays. The nature center is open late on Tuesdays, until 8 p.m., closed Thursdays for regular maintenance.
