Camp Cosmos

UNLV Summer 2025

Registration Now Open

Monday through Friday
9:00am through 4:00pm
Bigelow Physics Building

Activities and lessons:

  • The Earth, Planets, and Exoplanets

  • The Sun, Stars, and Star Clusters

  • Black Holes and Galaxies

  • Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Cosmology

  • Observing with robotic telescopes

  • Campus and facilities tours

Also included:

  • One-year Slooh account for access to robotic telescopes

  • Lunches at UNLV dining facilities

  • Course Materials

  • Camp Cosmos t-shirt and memorabilia

Week at a glance

Camp Cosmos Sessions

June 2-6
June 9-13
June 23-27
July 14-18

Camp Cosmos II Sessions

July 7-11
July 21-25

Early Bird registration fee is $549 through February 14, 2025.

Regular registration fee is $599 beginning February 15, 2025.

Camp Cosmos students should have completed 5th grade and not yet started 9th.

Camp Cosmos II is open to any student who has completed Camp Cosmos.

Questions?

Contact us at campcosmos@unlv.edu

Camp Cosmos

  • Earth and planetary geology

  • Giant and rocky planets

  • The Sun

  • Asteroids and comets

  • Exoplanets

  • Stars and stellar populations

  • Stellar death

  • Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars

  • The Milky Way and other galaxies

  • Active galactic nuclei, blazars, and quazars

  • Galaxy clusters and Large Scale Structure

  • The Hubble Law

  • The Cosmic Microwave Background

  • Space and ground-based telescopes

Camp Cosmos II

  • Earth and planetary atmospheres

  • Moons, rings, and disks in the solar system

  • Solar System history

  • Planet formation

  • Exoplanet detection

  • Nuclear fusion in the Sun and stars

  • The lives of stars

  • Neutrinos and cosmic rays

  • Galactic chemistry: kilonovae, supernova, stellar and big bang nucleosynthesis

  • Dark matter and dark matter detection

  • Dark energy and its effects

  • Einstein’s theory of gravity

  • The end of the universe: the big rip, the heat death, the big crunch, the big bounce


* We are constantly refining our curriculum, so all topics are subject to minor changes.

Curriculum Topics

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