Jean Creighton

2 weeks ago | wuwm.com | Audrey Nowakowski |Jean Creighton |Graham Thomas

While we’re certainly not experiencing tropical weather here in Wisconsin this spring, you can visit the tropics at UW-Milwaukee's Manfred Olson Planetarium. Their April show “Stars in the Tropics” takes stargazers to different cities near the equator to explore different night skies and astronomical monuments. Planetarium director and Lake Effect astronomy contributor Jean Creighton joined Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakoski to share more.

Oct 15, 2024 | wuwm.com | Audrey Nowakowski |Rob Larry |Jean Creighton

As we continue celebrating spooky season this month, perhaps you like to get a good scare by watching a horror movie set in space. There’s the classics such as Aliens or 2001: A Space Odyssey, but we don’t need fictionalized versions of space to find it scary. In fact, the longer and harder you think about space — the scarier it can get.