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
The Zula Patrol: Down to the Earth
Audience: Best for a younger audience (4-8)
When their hurt pet Gorga is tricked into helping the villainous Dark Truder rule the universe, the Zula Patrol must rescue him while learning about terrestrial and interplanetary weather.
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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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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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Big
Audience: Best for ages 8 and up
BIG uses a light-hearted storytelling style, computer animation, and stop-motion characters to answer one of astronomy's hardest questions: "How big is the Universe?" The immersive fulldome journey brings this massive subject down to Earth by traveling to the farthest reaches of our observable cosmos.
Black Holes
Audience: Best for ages 8 and up
Black Holes takes you on a fully immersive journey through one of the most mystifying, awe-inspiring phenomena in the universe: a black hole. Where do they come from? Where do they go? How do we find them? Is there one on Earth’s horizon? What was Einstein’s connection to them?
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Tilt
Audience: Best for a younger audience (5-11).
When the seasons go crazy it’s up to Annie and Max to set things right. But fixing this will take something extraordinary, and a little help. Come on a whirlwind adventure as the siblings learn just how the seasons and work, and discover that sometimes, all we need is a new angle on the world.
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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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Earth, Moon & Sun
Audience: Best for a younger audience (5-11).
This planetarium show explores the relationship between the Earth, Moon and Sun with the help of Coyote, an amusing character adapted from Native American oral traditions who has many misconceptions about our home planet and its most familiar neighbors.
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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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