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
One World, One Sky
Audience: Best for a younger audience (4-7)
Elmo and Big Bird live in the United States and Hu Hu Zhu lives far away in China, but they discovered that they still see the same stars at night!
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Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Audience: Best for a general audience
Celeste will join Moon in a journey through time. An exciting adventure that will show them the dinosaurs and the Earth as it was in the very distant past.
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Expedition Reef
Audience: Best for a general audience
Expedition Reef show reveals in exquisite detail the breathtaking beauty and biodiversity of coral reefs—and the scientists taking action to restore them.
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The Cosmic Recipe: Setting the Periodic Table
Audience: Best for ages 8 and up
Discover how the Big Bang and dying stars cooked up everything from your smartphone to your own DNA in this cosmic journey through the periodic table.
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Firefall
Audience: Best for ages 8 and up
Witness the terrifying beauty of Firefall, where the same space invaders capable of wiping out life are the very ones that delivered the water and organics that created us.
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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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