Planetarium Shows
The Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium at Fernbank Science Center is a celestial theater in the round, utilizing the Digistar 7 10K projection system. The planetarium has one of the highest resolutions of any planetarium in the world, creating a stunning immersive environment, while guiding the audience through the wonders of the universe!
The Sky Tonight
Audience: Best for a general audience.
Presented live by a Fernbank Science Center astronomer, this is a guided tour through the constellations, planets and celestial events of the current evening sky.
Showtime: First Saturday of each month at 12:00 PM
Spooky Space
Audience: Best for ages 6 and up.
Spooky Space finds space counterparts to Halloween characters. For example: Ghosts = Nebulae, Vampires = Black Holes, and The Invisible Man = Invisible Universe
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Space Aliens - Looking for Life in the Universe
Audience: Best for ages 10 and up.
Join our alien “experts”–Hopeful and Skeptical–as they try to convince each other whether or not life exists beyond the Earth. Follow their astrobiology arguments from the ocean floor to a journey across the galaxy!
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Distant Worlds - Alien Life?
Audience: Best for ages 8 and up.
Explore the possibility of life on other planets. Learn the limits of biology as we know it. Imaginative visualizations of possible life forms.
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Phantom of the Universe - The Hunt for Dark Matter
Audience: Best for ages 10 and up.
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Phantom of the Universe is an immersive planetarium show that explores the nature of dark matter, from its origins in the Big Bang to modern discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Constellations: Adventures Connecting Earth & Sky
Audience: Best for a general audience.
Connect to the stars in this great planetarium show. Explore the universe and travel the world. Oh, and learn what "pareidolia" means and how to pronounce it!
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Perfect Little Planet
Audience: Best for a general audience.
A family from another star system searches our solar system for the perfect vacation spot. Dad wants peace and quiet, Mom wants pretty moons. Visit all the planets and enjoy exotic locales in the vacation trip of a lifetime. Walk on Pluto's frozen surface. Fly the ice cliffs of Miranda. Feel the power of Jupiter's storm clouds.
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The Alien Who Stole Christmas
Audience: Best for a younger audience (4-10).
Take a tour of winter’s evening sky, and then join jolly ol’ Santa and concerned alien, Mr. Freep, as they explore the solar system’s planets and meet the Christmas Eve needs of their fictitious inhabitants.
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Two Small Pieces of Glass
Audience: Best for a general audience.
"Two Small Pieces of Glass" follows two students at a star party as they learn how the telescope evolved from Galileo's simple lenses into massive modern space observatories. Through this journey, audiences of all ages explore 400 years of astronomical wonder and discovery.
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Mystery of the Christmas Star
Audience: Best for a general audience.
Journey back over 2000 years to Bethlehem as we seek to discover a scientific explanation for the star the wise men followed to find the baby Jesus.
This modern retelling of the Christmas story is sure to charm and captivate audiences of all ages.
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