https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfuHFC-3Pf0 When: Monday, Aug. 21, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (gates open at 10:30) Where: UNK Cope Stadium/Foster Field Cost: Free Parking/logistics: unk.edu/eclipse KEARNEY – Planners expect a full stadium Monday during the free community solar eclipse Watch Party from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at University of Nebraska at Kearney’s Cope Stadium. Their best advice is to arrive early, expect traffic and parking delays, and plan for some hot sun before it goes … [Read more...]
UNK professors offer quick expert talks at PREclipse panel
When: Sunday, Aug. 20, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Where: UNK Fine Arts Building, Miriam Drake Theater Cost: Free KEARNEY – This spring, University of Nebraska at Kearney faculty developed what became a popular series of presentations at the Planetarium to explore eclipse-related science, history and art. Six of these faculty will repeat these presentations back to back at a PREclipse panel Aug. 20 at 2 p.m. at UNK’s Miriam Drake Theater. “TEDtalk”-style, the mini-lectures will give eclipse … [Read more...]
UNK’s Lazarova is Citizen CATE Experiment coordinator for solar eclipse
By SARA GIBONEY UNK Communications KEARNEY – University of Nebraska at Kearney physics and astronomy professor Mariana Lazarova is the Citizen CATE Experiment state coordinator for Nebraska and site coordinator for Ravenna. The Citizen CATE (Continental-America Telescopic Eclipse) Experiment will capture images of the sun’s inner corona during the Aug. 21 Great American Solar Eclipse, using more than 60 telescopes operated by area scientists, high school groups and … [Read more...]
Groundbreaking astronomer Tabetha Boyajian featured in Kearney Aug. 20
Who: Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian When: Sunday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m. Where: Merryman Performing Arts Center; 225 W. 22nd St., Kearney Cost: Free Audience: All ages Web: https://www.ted.com/talks/tabetha_boyajian_the_most_mysterious_star_in_the_universe?language=en KEARNEY – Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this … [Read more...]
‘Bad Astronomer’ Phil Plait headlines April 17 Solar Eclipse panel
KEARNEY – Celebrity physicist Phil Plait headlines the list of speakers at an upcoming panel discussion focused on the Aug. 21 solar eclipse. Known as the “Bad Astronomer,” Plait is a well-known author and public speaker who has appeared on several popular radio, television and podcast programs. He is a celebrity in science circles, and his first book “Bad Astronomy” was a trade science hit. Plait is one of three presenters at the Great American Solar Eclipse Panel Discussion at 5 p.m. … [Read more...]
