Pluto Day 2025

Join us at the Lawrence Public Library on Saturday, February 15th from 3-5 PM to celebrate the 95th Anniversary of Pluto's Discovery! Come learn about KU's connection to Pluto and celebrate the birthday of our favorite Dwarf Planet with arts, crafts, and activities for all ages

Clyde Tombaugh was a Kansas farmboy who built his own telescopes to explore the night sky. His drawings of the objects he saw so impressed astronomers at Lowell observatory in Arizona that they gave him a job at the observatory, where he discovered Pluto in 1930. He then came back to Kansas and received his bachelors and masters degrees in Astronomy from KU.