Winter skies on view at CSUN





Cal State University North-ridge’s Bianchi Planetarium invites the public to explore the mysteries of winter night skies in a series of shows in February.


The planetarium will be offering two shows every Friday night in February to give the public an opportunity to view different aspects of the evening skies.


Each Friday at 6 p.m., the first presentation will be the "Winter Sky Show," which offers a view of the stars, constellations and planets visible in the night skies during winter.


The second presentations, each beginning at 7 p.m., are as follows:


•Feb. 13: "Relativistic Interstellar Travel," a presentation by Art Huffman, a senior lecturer in the physics and astronomy department at UCLA. Huffman will examine if and how man can exploit relativistic time dilation to travel to distant stars.


•Feb. 20: "The Search for Life in the Universe," in which narrator Leonard Nimoy poses the question "Are we alone in the universe?" The show explores the attempts by humans to establish contact with extraterrestrial civilizations.


•Feb. 27: "Virtual Tour of San Fernando Observatory" provides an overview of the observatory, located in Sylmar and operated by Cal State Northridge, which functions as a research and educational facility.


General admission tickets for one show are $5, or $8 for two shows.


Student admission is $3 for one show and $5 for two shows.


Tickets are available at the University Student Union box office Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by calling the box office at (818) 677-2488.


For more information about the planetarium’s shows, call Northridge’s Department of Physics and Astronomy at (818) 677-2775.



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