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Lunaverse

Explore the nature of Earth’s Moon: its motion and phases, lunar and solar eclipses, tides, and the Moon’s origin. The story unfolds as a conversation between a curious young child and the Moon—Luna—over the course of a night, from moonrise to moonset.

Waiting Far Away

(10 min) An explorer of the cosmos has traveled too far…and can’t find home. Become lost on a journey through the majestic, humbling, and solitary beauty of space and time reimagined.  Charles Hayden Planetarium

Phantom of the Universe

(25 min) An exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term “dark matter.  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Dawn of the Space Age

(30 min) Today we seem to hear about what people are doing up in space on an almost daily basis, particularly what’s going on in the International Space Station, but also of private space ventures and competitions, and of the work being done to prepare us for such epic journeys as a human trip to Mars. […]

Solar Quest

(10 min) Short 10 min show about the lifecycle of the sun.   Buehl Planetarium