Astronomy

A beautiful, animated look at the motions of the Earth in space that lead to the cycles of the day and night and the parade of the seasons throughout the year as well as the turning of the stars in the sky at night. Subjects that can be challenging and complex, yet important to understand, are made colorful and clear.

Fito Gato en el Espacio es una presentacion de caricatura juguetona e imaginativa sobre un gato muy curioso. Desde los ojos de Fito, observamos su familia humana, un grupo de fanaticos observantes del cielo nocturno. Fito toma en cuenta como el tiempo humano es distinto al tiempo de un gato. 

Diana (la humana de Fito) acepta un trabajo en la Luna y tristemente deja a Fito atras. Fito encuentra un manera de esconderse en un baul lleno de ropa. El baul y Fito abordaron el Avion Espacial, que los llevaria a la estacion espacial Freedom.

De ahi, el es transladado a la Nave Espacial. Durante el periodo en donde no existe la gravedad, el baul se abre. Fito flota afuera a la cabina y mira hacia afuera. Cuando Diana descubre a Fito el brinca para saludarla, pero vuela sobre su cabeza, con eso de que el solo pesa dos libras en la gravedad Lunar. El conoce el resto de los habitantes del Imbrium Village, incluso al malvado Comandante Stone, quien ordena a Diana que regrese a Fito a la Tierra. La tripulacion Lunar hace una peticion para mantener a Fito con ellos y el Comandante Stone acepta. Hasta le hace un traje espacial a Fito. Cuando Fito explora afuera, el ve la Tierra, casi igual como cuando el miraba la Luna desde la terraza de su casa.

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When the Magic Tree House appears in the backyard of Jack and Annie, they discover that it is full of books. Together the brother, sister, and audience travel to other planets in the universe as they answer a series of questions about outer space. 

"The Little Star That Could” is a story about Little Star, an average yellow star in search for planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, and discovers that stars combine to form star clusters and galaxies. Eventually, Little Star finds his planets. Each planet is introduced to your audiences with basic information about our Solar System. 

This planetarium show strikes curiosity in the viewer as Coyote’s misconceptions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun are brought to their attention. Coyote is adapted from Native American oral traditions.  Questions such as why the moon can sometimes be seen in the daytime, why the sun does not rise and set in the same place, and why the moon sometimes changes shape are answered. This helps the viewer understand how the Earth, Moon, and Sun work as a system. 

Travel to a unique planet — to call your home! Imagine that you are a traveler from the depths of interstellar space. As you approach our solar system, what will you find? Long before you reach the Sun, you traverse the Oort cloud, the deep freeze at the outermost reaches. You pass by the gas giants and their families of moons and rings. Finally, you reach the inner solar system, and the rocky worlds of Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury 

High Energy Astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the universe. These radiations reveal the processes in the hot and violent universe.

High Energy Astrophysics probes hot gas in clusters of galaxies, which are the most massive objects in the universe. It also probes hot gas accreting around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies.

Finally, high energy radiation provides important information about our own galaxy, neutron stars, supernova remnants and stars like our Sun which emit copious amounts of high energy radiation. Europe plays a leading role in high energy astrophysics research. 

Heliophysics is the main component of the Sunstruck! planetarium show. It includes information on the sun, parts/layers, space weather and its impact on Earth. We used several NASA heliophysics missions including SOHO, IRIS, and SDO. The audience should gain an enhanced understanding of the Sun and how it impacts our world. This product is to be used in full dome planetariums. 

Join scientists who are investigating the boundary between our Solar System and the rest of our galaxy in IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System.  Designed for visitors with an appreciation for the challenges of space science and a desire to learn more about science research, the show follows the creation of NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Audiences will get an in-depth look at the mission and how IBEX is collecting high-speed atoms to create a map of our Solar System’s boundary.  Narrated by two inquisitive teenagers, audiences will hear from the scientists and engineers that developed the IBEX mission and created the spacecraft, and get the latest updates on the mission’s discoveries. 

DARK is a fulldome movie that explains and explores the nature of dark matter, the missing 80% of the mass of the Universe.  The search for dark matter is the most pressing astrophysical problem of our time – the solution to which will help us understand why the Universe is as it is, where it came from, and how it has evolved over billions of years – the unimaginable depths of deep time, of which a human life is but a flickering instant. But in that instant, we can grasp its immensity and, through science, we can attempt to understand it.

The search for a planet like Earth – one with temperatures, oceans, and an atmosphere suitable for life has been a little like Goldilocks’ search for a decent bowl of porridge: some are too hot, some are too cold, but some are “just right.”  Learn the techniques astronomers have already used to find more than 2,000 tiny, dark worlds in orbit around distant stars – some in the Goldilocks Zone.  As we add exploration tools like the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, we will undoubtedly find thousands more! 

Two Small Pieces of Glass follows two teenage students while they learn about the history of the telescope.  They learn how Galileo modified a child's spyglass with two small pieces of glass to peer into the heavens.  While looking through the telescopes the students observe many of the beauties in our solar system and learn how NASA is using the same ideas to peer even further into space.

The sky, and everything that happens in it, has always piqued our curiosity. The regular cycle of the seasons and the motion of the stars have fascinated us since our earliest ancestors looked up to the sky. In the learned company of a cartoon Einstein, this show takes audiences on a tour of the major astronomical milestones of the last 3,000 years – from the cosmological models of antiquity, through the Ptolemaic system of epicycles, to the contributions of Copernicus, Newton, Hubble and many others.

We explore the discoveries made possible by the use of technology – from the first telescope used by Galileo – to modern ones in use on Earth and in space. All have revealed the beauty of the cosmos. Come along for an exploration of nebulae, pulsars, and black holes and 3,000 years of astronomy exploration.