{"id":100523,"date":"2026-09-01T03:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=100523"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:45:48","slug":"ritter-planetariums-september-programming-takes-viewers-to-antarctica-sesame-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_01_2026\/ritter-planetariums-september-programming-takes-viewers-to-antarctica-sesame-street","title":{"rendered":"Ritter Planetarium\u2019s September Programming Takes Viewers to Antarctica, Sesame Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo Ritter Planetarium will present two programs in September: \u201cChasing the Ghost Particle: From the South Pole to the Edge of the Universe\u201d and \u201cOne World, One Sky: Big Bird\u2019s Adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChasing the Ghost Particle\u201d takes viewers beneath the ice of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, where the IceCube Neutrino Observatory detects tiny, elusive particles that offer fascinating insights into stars and galaxies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77251\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77251\" class=\"wp-image-77251\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ritter-Planetarium-SIDE.jpg\" alt=\"Outside photo of the Ritter Planetarium.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ritter-Planetarium-SIDE.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ritter-Planetarium-SIDE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cChasing the Ghost Particle\u201d and \u201cOne World, One Sky\u201d will screen on Fridays and Saturdays in September at UToledo&#8217;s Ritter Planetarium.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cChasing the Ghost Particle\u201d will screen at 8:30 p.m. Fridays through Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne World, One Sky\u201d follows Big Bird, Elmo and a friend from the Chinese co-production of \u201cSesame Street\u201d on an imaginary trip to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne World, One Sky\u201d will screen at 1 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 26<\/p>\n<p>Admission to all public programs is $8 for adults and $6 for children, seniors and UToledo community members. Children ages 3 and younger are free.<\/p>\n<p>Parking is free for visitors who register in advance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offstreet.io\/events\/7OZIZKF5\">online<\/a> or by submitting their license plate information once inside the planetarium lobby. Free parking is available within 45 minutes of the beginning of planetarium shows in Area 1N.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the fall programs, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/nsm\/rpbo\/\">Ritter Planetarium website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_01_2026\/ritter-planetariums-september-programming-takes-viewers-to-antarctica-sesame-street\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ritter-Planetarium-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Outside photo of the Ritter Planetarium.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>\u201cChasing the Ghost Particle\u201d and \u201cOne World, One Sky\u201d will screen on Fridays and Saturdays in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":77251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,39,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100526,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100523\/revisions\/100526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}