Traveling stars and planets

The University of Alaska's Museum of the North visited Dillingham and Togiak last week to make presentations to the schools and hold community science nights in both towns.

The primary feature of the presentation was a digital planetarium, which Chris Cannon, an education outreach specialist with the University of Alaska Museum of the North, said may be the only portable planetarium of its kind in Alaska.

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