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The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at the College of Southern Nevada
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The Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN is Southern Nevada's only public planetarium and the astronomical heart of Las Vegas!

We offer field trips on weekdays and our public program on weekends, with special events year-round.

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Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• The face of Taurus the Bull
• The Pleiades & Hyades and mythology
• Definition of a Light Year
• All about Saturn’s rings 🪐
• The thin crescent moon beside Venus in the dawn sky will move to the evening skies
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: November 17th - 23rd, 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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This is the last concert scheduled of CSN's fall semester!
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Northern Taurids tonight & the Leonids next Monday morning ☄️
• Jupiter rising late evening
• When to expect the crescent moon in the dawn skies 🌙
• How to spot Saturn with the naked eye 🪐

#LVNightSkyWeekly #CSN
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: November 10th - 16th, 2025
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November 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
November’s theme is Exoplanetary Astronomy, and we have a brand new show debuting at 8:00pm called, “A New Blue - The Exoplanet Movie! 🌍✨

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CSN students receive FREE admission this first Friday, November, 7th.

#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium #November2025 #CSN
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• NightSky adjustments as clocks fall back an hour
• Precession & pole stars
• Debunking astrology
• Saturn near Capricorn & Sagittarius
• Best phases & methods for optimal lunar observations 🌗🔭
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: November 3rd - 9th, 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
We’ll have a special showing of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon tomorrow, Nov. 3rd at 11:00am at the Dale Etheridge Planetarium at CSN.

Get your tickets here: csnplanetarium.square.site/special-events 🎟️✨🌑🌈

#PinkFloyd #TDSOTM #DaleEtheridgePlanetarium
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
College campuses are closed today for the holiday. Wishing everyone a good Nevada Day & we’ll be back tomorrow 11/1 for the last day of our spooky astronomy themed program! 👻🕸️🦇🎃

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#daleetheridgeplanetarium #csn #collegeofsouthernnevada #planetarium #nevadaday
October 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate less than 20 light-years away.
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A Super-Earth Candidate Less Than 20 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have discovered a ready-to-image super-Earth candidate, named GJ 251c, less than 20 light-years away.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Join us if you dare. . . for a very Spooky Open Mic session this Thursday, October 30th from 5pm - 8pm at the planetarium (S146) at CSN’s North Las Vegas campus! 👻🦇🕸️

Hosted by @csncreativewritingclub @nativeheritagealliancecsn and @csn_fineartsclub

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October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Comet Lemon 2025 🍋
• The Swan comet near Saturn 🪐🦢
• Our extrasolar visitor, comet 3I/Atlas & its scientific value
• The Europa Clipper’s possible path through 3I/Atlas’ tail
• Which planets are visible when
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 27th - November 2nd, 2025
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October 28, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Catch a free spooky planetarium show Monday, 10/27 @ 11am with “Phantom of the Universe - The Hunt for Dark Matter.”

Check out the flyer below for more info. & for our other Fall 2025 semester showtimes!

Open to all CSN students ✨

#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium
#CollegeofSouthernNevada
#Fall2025
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Join us this Saturday for a rock hunt hosted by CSN’s Native Heritage Alliance. 🪨

We’ll meet at 10:00am by the planetarium lobby in S building, the South entrance of CSN’s NLV campus.

We’ll carpool and return to the same spot around 1:30pm.

Please check the flyer to see what supplies to bring.
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We have two showings of Pink Floyd’s 50th anniversary planetarium show for The Dark Side of the Moon coming up! 🌒🌈✨

Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2025 @ 11:00am

Grab your tix at the link below! 🎟️

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#PinkFloyd #DarkSideoftheMoon
October 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• The Orionids meteor shower peaking & where to find the radiant
• The Summer Triangle is still visible!
• The Northern Cross & Cygnus the Swan
• Jupiter near Gemini’s stars Castor & Pollux

#LVNightSkyWeekly
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 20th - 26th, 2025
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October 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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#PPOD: This is NGC 6397, a star cluster that glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of stars. At 7,800 light-years away, this is one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. 🧪 🔭

Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Ophiuchus & the keystone of Hercules
• Globular Clusters
• Where to find the dwarf planet/largest asteroid, Ceres
• Draco’s tail between the dippers
• The giraffe-shaped constellation Camelopardalis

#LVNightSky
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 13th - 19th, 2025
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October 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Join us for our free Meditation Mondays series tomorrow, Oct. 13th @ 12:30pm!

No need to bring a yoga mat, this will be a seated meditation in the planetarium’s dome theater. ✨

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#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium #MeditationMondays #CSN
October 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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In our latest #SETILive #podcast, @planetarypan.bsky.social learned that the potential biomass for Saturn's moon, Titan, according to @aaffholder.bsky.social, is very small — only a couple of kilograms, if it existed at all. Listen to the full interview: www.seti.org/outreach/set... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬
October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Dimensions of Realism: Beyond the Extracurricular Exhibition opened on June 27, and closes this Saturday, in the Art Gallery at the City of Henderson’s Debra March Center of Excellence.

A special Gallery Talk and Reception will take place tonight, Thursday, October 9, 2025, starting at 6 pm
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Visit us in costume this October & take home a free poster from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors. 👻🎃🕸️🦇

#SpookyAstronomy #DaleEtheridgePlanetarium
October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky, with highlights including:

• Tonight’s Full Harvest Super Moon
• The science behind the term ‘super moon’
• Spotting Neptune with a telescope or possibly binoculars
• The difference between an Ice Giant & a Gas Giant

#LVNightSkyWeekly 🌕
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: October 6th - 12th, 2025
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October 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This October’s theme is Spooky Astronomy! 👻🦇

Check out what’s playing on Fridays & Saturdays at the planetarium, and visitors in costume will get to choose a free 11 x 17” poster from NASA’s Galaxy of Horrors!

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#DaleEtheridgePlanetarium #October
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re having a special event for Moon Night with @lasvegas astronomy this Saturday and would like you to join us!

Register for your free tix for “Extraterrestrial Postcards & How to Read Them,” one of our moon shows, STEM activities, telescopes & more:

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October 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Join Dr. Andrew Kerr as we explore this week's night sky:

• The moon in Sagittarius’ teapot
• Moon Night Oct. 4th & our special event for it
• Current view of Saturn’s rings & why Galileo thought Saturn had “ears” in its nodes
• Cosmic objects to view near Orion, including stellar nurseries ✨🌖🪐
Las Vegas Night Sky Weekly: September 29th - October 5th, 2025
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September 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM