Welcome to the Fredric and Jean Edelman Planetarium!

Local school children and residents are welcome to join the Rowan community in reaching for the stars in the University's planetarium. Here visitors can enjoy a wide variety of shows and special events designed to educate and entertain, advance viewers' understanding of the universe, and provide up-to-date astronomical information. Come join us as we explore the cosmos!

The Planetarium is managed by the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Rowan University. For directions to Science Hall and the Edelman Planetarium, visit www.rowan.edu/map. For recorded information about current planetarium shows call 856.256.LITE (5483). To contact our business office, call 856.256.4389. To email the director, use johnsonk@rowan.edu. Our address:

Edelman Planetarium

Science Hall, Rowan University

201 Mullica Hill Road

Glassboro NJ  08028

Announcements

New shows begin March 20. "Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico" and "Pink Floyd: The Wall" can be seen on Satuday nights.Details are on our public-show page.

Have a BLAST!: the Spring Equinox lecture, March 25. Dr. Mark Devlin of the University of Pennsylvania will present a public lecture entitled "Finding Half the Starlight in the Universe: Adventures with the BLAST Experiment" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 25 in Betty Long Rowan Auditorium in Rowan Hall, the Engineering Building. This lecture is free and open to the public. You can also find out some fascinating details about this experiment here. Also see the next item:

BLAST! The Movie, March 20, 1 p.m. Welcome to astrophysics, Indiana Jones style! BLAST! is a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration. Five-time Emmy winner, Paul Devlin, follows his brother, Mark Devlin, PhD to five continents, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, to launch a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. They hope to look back in time to reveal a hidden Universe of never-before-seen starburst galaxies. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, their adventure reveals the surprising real life of scientists.

BLAST! is open to the public, and plays in Edelman Planetarium's star theater. The admission charge is $3 per person.

Planetarium E-Newsletter. The planetarium is starting up an occasional newsletter available via email. Periodically, perhaps twice a month to start, we'll send out information about upcoming shows, observatory open houses, and current sky events. We will not share email addresses with anyone else! To sign up, simply send a request to the planetarium director.

"365 Days of Astronomy" podcast available. The International Astronomical Union (yes, the same guys that demoted Pluto a couple years ago) and several other organizations are sponsoring a daily podcast of astronomical interest throughout 2009 and on into 2010. This is part of the "International Year of Astronomy." The 'casts are designed for the general public, not for scientists, so give one a listen. To hear and/or read today's article, go to the 365 Days of Astronomy Web site.

Sky Events: you can find out interesting events happening in our sky and out in space on this page, including visible passes of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station coming up in late November.

"South Jersey Skies" newspaper column. The Gloucester County Times is publishing this column on astronomy on Sundays (usually) every two weeks, both in its (old-fashioned) hard-copy edition and online. The on-line index page for this feature can be found here. If you'd like to look at past columns, here's the list. Click on the topic to go to that Web page.

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The Edelman Planetarium normally offers public astronomy programs -- planetarium shows -- on weekends. The show schedule is always available at www.rowan.edu/planetarium/schedule.

The planetarium is open to schools and other groups by appointment. See the school program page, or call 856.256.4389 for details.

Last updated 3/14/10.