{"id":782,"date":"2005-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=782"},"modified":"2005-01-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T05:00:00","slug":"planetarium-beams-up-galaxies-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/planetarium-beams-up-galaxies-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetarium Beams Up &#8216;Galaxies&#8217; Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid;margin: 5px;padding: 5px;width: 300px;font-size: 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/images\/planetarium-class.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Joe Mast instructs a class in the planetarium\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>  How did astronomers discover galaxies? That question is probed in the newest public program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/sciencecenter\/\">M.T. Brackbill Planetarium<\/a> at Eastern Mennonite University.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Galaxies: Island Universes&quot; will be presented 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 9, and repeated the same time Jan. 23, Feb. 6 and 20 and Mar. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The program will explore the motion of galaxies, the different types of galaxies in the universe and how gravity holds individual galaxies together, according to planetarium director Joseph W. Mast.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/sciencecenter\/\">D.R. Hostetter Museum of Natural History<\/a>, adjacent to the planetarium, will be open for browsing 2-3:30 p.m. in conjuction with the planetarium shows. A fluorescent rock room, a 3,000-year-old mummy hand, a two-headed calf and Nile crocodile are among the more than 6,000 artifacts and specimens on display.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to the planetarium and museum in EMU&#8217;s Suter Science Center is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did astronomers discover galaxies? 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