{"id":12088,"date":"2025-12-10T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12088"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:47:21","slug":"bushman-planetarium-christmas-showings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/bushman-planetarium-christmas-showings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushman Planetarium Christmas showings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-12089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/12\/christmas-star.jpg\" alt=\"planetarium shows\" width=\"290\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/12\/christmas-star-200x228.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/12\/christmas-star.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>Dec. 10, 2025&#8211;The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University will present public showings of &#8220;Mystery of the Christmas Star&#8221; in December.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3 p.m.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMystery of the Christmas Star\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journey back over 2,000 years to Bethlehem to discover a scientific explanation for the biblical story of the star the wise men followed to find the baby Jesus. This modern retelling of the Christmas story aims to charm and captivate audiences of all ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The planetarium is located in Agenstein Hall room 147. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children age 13 and under, students, employees, military and senior citizens age 60 and up. Planetarium tickets must be purchased in advance, either online at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/missouriwestern.edu\/planetarium\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu\/planetarium<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or in person. Please call 816-271-4288 or email planetarium@missouriwestern.edu for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 10, 2025&#8211;The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University will present public showings of &#8220;Mystery of the Christmas Star&#8221; in December. Friday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m.\u00a0 Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. \u201cMystery of the Christmas Star\u201d Journey back over 2,000 years to Bethlehem to discover a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":12089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[814,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12092,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12088\/revisions\/12092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}