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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