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Dinosaurs at Dusk

You’ll travel back in time to meet the pterosaurs and the ancestors of modern-day birds: the feathered dinosaurs. Lucy and her father navigate from continent to continent, looking for clues about the origins of flight. When time runs out theyRead More

Fragile Planet

Fly out to the farthest reaches of the universe and float up through Earth’s atmosphere to gain an astronaut’s view of your home—the only planet currently known to support life. Then travel to the Moon, Mars, and even beyond theRead More

Cycle/Waiting Far Away

These two short films look for beauty on the Earth and beyond. To create Cycle, Eric Freeman spent the summer camping and shot a bunch of beautiful timelapse photography with a fisheye lens to reveal the majesty of Earth’s naturalRead More

Out There: 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!

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 centersRead More

Little Draggy Adventure

Do you know where the earth lives? What surrounds it? How far is it from the Earth to the Sun, and what makes our planet different from the others? Take a wonderful journey with a cheerful dragon Woody, who travelsRead More

Back To The Moon For Good

The show opens with the first era of space exploration in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We see what that era of landers and orbiters taught us about our nearest neighbor including the discovery of the Moon’s origin, composition,Read More

Meditations on Perihelion

Welcome to a live performance of original electronic music and immersive visuals on the planetarium’s dome. The “Meditations” are a personal exploration of the human experience of the passage of time during the various cycles that the Earth moves throughRead More

Dinosaurs at Dusk

You’ll travel back in time to meet the pterosaurs and the ancestors of modern-day birds: the feathered dinosaurs. Lucy and her father navigate from continent to continent, looking for clues about the origins of flight. When time runs out theyRead More

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.

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