* Astronomy

People have always had a fascination for the objects seen in the heavens. Before recorded history, humans already knew about the motion of the sun and moon, how the fixed stars rotate around the North Star and that a select few stars moved relative to the fixed stars, staying close to the same path the sun travels as it moves from constellation to constellation through the course of a year.

We invite the public to come to the Copernican Observatory and Planetarium, on the university's campus, and learn with us about some of this vast array of astronomical knowledge.

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