Dinosaurs at Dusk
2025-09-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Dinosaurs at Dusk
A whirlwind time travel adventure back to the epoch of the dinosaurs! A larger than life extravaganza rife with roaring monsters from the ancient age: bounding, stomping, flying, hunting, and foraging frenetically above us.

Dimensions Once Upon Our Reality
2025-09-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Dimensions Once Upon Our Reality
Can a question itself be more powerful than its answer? What is “reality?” Are there other realities, universes, or dimensions? These questions are almost impossible to answer, yet just asking them sparks our imagination.

Super Massive Black Holes
2025-09-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Super Massive Black Holes
Leading scientists, industrial experts, and professionals in science dissemination come together to combine state-of-the-art observations, simulations and innovative tools to compare theory with observation, and shed light on the physics of black hole formation in the context of galaxy evolution.

One World One Sky
2025-09-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
One World, One Sky
Follows Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a muppet from China. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.

The Little Star That Could
2025-09-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
The Little Star That Could
A little yellow star travels through the galaxy in search of planets that will give it its special name. During his journey, this star learns about the many types of stars that live in the galaxy.

Out There: The Quest For Extrasolar Worlds
2025-09-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Out There: The Quest for Extrasolar Worlds
We are able to explore more and more of the Universe. What we have found so far has surpassed even our wildest expectations – there are planets everywhere!

Rusty Rocket's Last Blast
2025-09-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-16 08:00 - 17:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Rusty Rocket’s Last Blast
Join Rusty Rocket and his band of rocket rookies as they explore the solar system. Fly across Saturn’s rings, soar along a Martian canyon; delve deep into the solar interior!

Journey To A Billion Suns
2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-19 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Journey to a Billion Suns
A program about mapping the stars. The European Space Agency’s “GAIA” project intends to produce the most comprehensive three dimensional map of our sector of the galaxy. We’ll know the distances, sizes, temperatures, life spans, exo-planet locations and more about a billion stars in our part of the Milky Way.

Sunstruck
2025-09-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-23 13:00 - 14:00 | ME
Sunstruck
Take a journey to discover the wonders of our magnificent star and investigate how it has supported life on Earth for millenia. Learn about its mass, gases, temperature, energy, structure, and how it impacts our world, as well as its fate in the far distant future.

Mysteries of Your Brain
2025-09-25 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Mysteries of Your Brain
A curious girl and her crow companion take an adventure into the human brain, exploring how it works and what makes it so special. Zoom along neurons to see how your brain makes you you and how we each have the power to change our brains. An Original Bell Museum Production.
Made possible through generous support from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and Boston Scientific.

From Earth To The Universe
2025-09-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
This stunning, 30-minute voyage through time and space conveys, through an arresting combination of sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science. Read more about the movie here. The show was produced for the ESO Supernova Planetarium and Visitor Centre, to be opened in spring 2018, and for the worldwide planetarium community as free highres 4k download. The digital distribution was made possible through a partnership with CDN77.

The Hot And Energetic Universe
2025-09-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Southworth Planetarium — Science Building, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
The Hot And Energetic Universe
High Energy Astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the universe. These radiations reveal the processes in the hot and violent Universe. This science probes hot gas in clusters of galaxies and accreting around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Learn about our galaxy, neutron stars, supernova remnants and stars like our Sun.
