{"id":94873,"date":"2025-09-30T03:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=94873"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:40:55","slug":"ritter-planetarium-to-screen-spooky-space-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_30_2025\/ritter-planetarium-to-screen-spooky-space-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Ritter Planetarium to Screen \u2018Spooky Space\u2019 in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo\u2019s Ritter Planetarium will explore cosmic connections to Halloween in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpooky Space\u201d presents outer space phenomena through comparisons to seasonal characters like vampires and ghosts. Recommended for viewers ages 6 and older, the documentary will screen at 1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 25 and at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, with young viewers encouraged to attend in costume on Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Ritter Planetarium also will screen \u201cMessengers of Time and Space\u201d in October, exploring cutting-edge observatories and instruments that capture real-time astronomical events like the recently opened NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory based in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMessengers of Time and Space,\u201d a new documentary released earlier this year, will screen at 7:30 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Admission to planetarium shows is $8 for adults and $6 for children, senior citizens and UToledo community members. Children ages 3 and younger are free. Parking is free in Area 1N within 45 minutes of the beginning of planetarium shows.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about fall programs, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utoledo.edu\/nsm\/rpbo\/programs\/public.html\">Ritter Planetarium website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/09_30_2025\/ritter-planetarium-to-screen-spooky-space-in-october\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Inside-Planetarium-2023-SIDE-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"An inside view of UToledo\u2019s recently upgraded Ritter Planetarium: the seats, lights, dome and a $320,000 digital projection system.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>\u201cSpooky Space,\u201d presenting outer space phenomena through comparisons to seasonal characters like vampires and ghosts, will screen at 1 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 25 and at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":80969,"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\/94873"}],"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=94873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94875,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94873\/revisions\/94875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}