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
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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3-2-1 Liftoff!
Audience: Best for a general audience.
Elon is a hamster scientist who finds a robot which fell from the Earth's orbit. His spaceship is going to leave soon. Will Elon manage to get the robot back on his ship in time?
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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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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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The Zula Patrol: Down to the Earth
Audience: Best for a younger audience (4-8).
The stalwart heroes of the Zula Patrol are on an expedition collecting samples of weather for scientist Multo’s research. When the Zula gang inadvertently hurts their loyal pet Gorga’s feelings, he decides to leave Zula and find another planet to live on. Villain Dark Truder then tricks Gorga into helping with his latest nefarious scheme to rule the Universe. The Zula Patrollers find out and go after him, in the process learning all about weather, both terrestrial and interplanetary.
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Force Five
Audience: Best for ages 9 and up.
Come explore, and experience, the most powerful storms on Earth: a hurricane at sea, a tornado’s funnel cloud, and a huge solar storm. Learn now these storms develop over time, and how they can turn into cataclysmic events.
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