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Planetarium Show: Tonight’s Sky
FREE! Take a tour of the fall night sky with Robin, our Astronomy Education Specialist. Learn what constellations and bright stars are in the night sky this time of year and what planets we can see. Experience some of the incredible deep sky objects this sky has to offer including galaxies, star clusters, and more.…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery
Join us as we explore the little worlds of our solar system. Learn how our own Moon was born and the role it has played in making Earth a planet habitable for life. Explore the diversity of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Saturn’s moon Titan and moons orbiting asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects like Pluto. Speculate…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Moons- Worlds of Mystery
Join us as we explore the little worlds of our solar system. Learn how our own Moon was born and the role it has played in making Earth a planet habitable for life. Explore the diversity of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Saturn’s moon Titan and moons orbiting asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects like Pluto. Speculate…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Death of the Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs come to life! Discover the lives of multiple species of dinosaurs, from the Coelophysis of 205 million years ago to the Allosaurus and Diplodocus of the mid Jurassic period. We'll see the feathered Sinornithosaurus of China and the T. rex and Triceratops. Visit on-site locations of dinosaur graveyards, study their bones, and reconstruct how…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Starlight
Have you ever been afraid of the dark? As a little girl Margaret was afraid of the dark until she discovered the stars. Margaret takes us on a journey to discover constellations and ancient cultures, the births and deaths of stars and the innermost workings of our Sun. We’ll drift through a stellar nursery; we’ll…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Starlight
Have you ever been afraid of the dark? As a little girl Margaret was afraid of the dark until she discovered the stars. Margaret takes us on a journey to discover constellations and ancient cultures, the births and deaths of stars and the innermost workings of our Sun. We’ll drift through a stellar nursery; we’ll…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Arcs to Auroras
We’ve all been captivated by the dancing northern lights we call auroras. Join us as we learn how Earth’s magnetic field creates auroras and how this magnetic field protects our planet from cosmic radiation and harmful charged particles from the Sun. Discover why auroras seem to dance across the sky in rays, folds and curtains…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Explore
Join us as we explore how scholars and scientists throughout the ages used the sky as a calendar and clock to measure the passage of time and how their charts and star catalogs were the beginnings of the modern science of astronomy. Be inspired by astronomer Johannes Kepler’s story – how his theories about planetary…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: Explore
Join us as we explore how scholars and scientists throughout the ages used the sky as a calendar and clock to measure the passage of time and how their charts and star catalogs were the beginnings of the modern science of astronomy. Be inspired by astronomer Johannes Kepler’s story – how his theories about planetary…
Read MorePlanetarium Show: The Cowboy Astronomer
Are you joining us for Firefly Festival? Enhance your festival experience by catching a planetarium show! Planetarium show tickets are in addition to the Firefly Festival entry fee. Space in the planetarium is limited and show tickets are available for purchase now. Planetarium Show: The Cowboy Astronomer & The Night Sky Learn about the night…
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