Our Solar System: A Virtual Tour

Please join us for a virtual planetarium show! We are using Zoom to host a live planetarium show about the solar system. Ethan Partington, our presenter, will guide you through a show about the night sky over Detroit. Then they'll fly you to each planet (And Pluto) and teach you about what each world is like! At the end of the show we'll give you the link to a half-hour long astronomical movie which you can watch at the time of the show, or save for another day.

Ethan is a PhD student at Wayne State University, where they currently study the extreme environments around distant supermassive black holes. They explore these extragalactic sources using NICER, a state-of-the-art X-ray detector located on the International Space Station. After the show, they’ll stick around to answer questions about the astrophysics of our solar system and beyond!