The Stellars is the third production from our globally acclaimed Creative Planet team. This film has been meticulously designed for children aged 3 to 8. The theme – What do plants need to live? – was chosen based on an international study of educational curricula. With guidance from scientists and a child psychologist, we’ve tailored the characters, storyline, and emotional undertones to suit the developmental stages of young children. We are proud to introduce: The Stellars – Mission Green. 

Imani, Aki, and John are three friends from an alien solar system. While on a space exploration mission, something routine for their tribe, they distractedly neglect their onboard “chores,” leading their ship to crash on an unknown planet – Earth. The accident damages the life-support system that sustains the cherished forest they keep onboard, which gives them their vital Yumi-Plumi fruits. However, forests in their society are usually taken care of by robots. 

With no knowledge of plant care or any means of contacting their elders, they are fortunate to be able to turn to the planetarium audience for help. All hope now rests on the Earth children, who help the Stellars discover what plants need to survive and to rescue their Yumi Plumi forest. There is a race against time – will the children be able to figure out the successive elements needed to nourish the plants? 

Of course they will, as we’ve prepared subtle clues, ensuring that everyone will be winners. However, to make sure it won’t be too easy, young viewers will have to travel together with our heroes to visit an ancient-growth forest on Earth, to search among the trees there, teeming with life. They will have to help launch the scout ship, navigate through space, locate the right spot on Earth – and then escape from an angry bear! 

In the world of children’s stories, good always prevails, and seekers always manage to find their Holy Grail. Thus, thanks to the young viewers, the Stellars will find the last piece of the puzzle, and so revive their nourishing forest. They will learn a lesson from the ecosystem about cooperation and responsibility – and eventually return home, to their parents.

Sunshine is a loveable cartoon Sun, and he doesn’t care if the children get loud or excited: in fact, he wants them to look around, raise their hands, sing, and play along with his tricks. Adults have to join in too!

During the fun and games, the stars of the night sky are gently revealed and Sunshine explores some simple colors and counting.

Sunshine is self contained, but a live presenter is recommended to get the audience interacting fully.

Produced by NSC Creative
Approximate running time: 20 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and under

Join uniquely-animated brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright for a full-throttle adventure through the history and into the future of aeronautics!

Learn about the four forces of flight — lift, weight, thrust and drag — with demonstrations by the Wright brothers and share observations and discoveries with Leonardo da Vinci as he creates his “flying machine.” Along the way, you’ll meet Bessie Coleman, the first woman of African American and Native American descent to earn an aviation pilot’s license; break the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager; and take an exhilarating flight across the Atlantic Ocean with Amelia Earhart.

Will you become a famous aviator? “Take Flight” could be your first step!

Produced by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Approximate running time: 22 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and up

Tales of the Maya Skies takes you on an incredible journey of discovery that brings to light the Maya’s sophisticated understanding of astronomy, architecture and mathematics and how this knowledge intertwined with their creation myths.

Discover how the ancient Maya observed and recorded the movement of the planets and the sun throughout the seasons. See how they used this knowledge to interpret and understand their world, predicting solstices, solar eclipses, weather patterns and planetary movements.

Learn about the complex early Maya counting and calendar systems…and the true significance of 12-21-2012.

Tales of the Maya Skies is an immersive digital fulldome experience using surround sound, 3D laser scanning and sophisticated postproduction techniques to reproduce the virtual reality of the ancient Maya civilization. Narrated by Latin Grammy winner Lila Downs and with an original soundtrack by Michael Stearns. Currently showing in over 30 planetariums worldwide.

Journey back in time through the jungles of the Yucatan to the temples of Chichén Itzá, and the world of the ancient Maya.

Produced by Chabot Space & Science Center
Major funding from the National Science Foundation
Approximate running time: 35 minutes.
Educational materials and marketing templates available

Unlocking the Mysteries of Distant Stars

Chile, South America, Atacama Desert, TAO project team of Tokyo University has been constructing the huge infrared telescope on the peak of Mt. Chajnantor. The show merges CG space scenes with powerful and beautiful live-action images including scenes of severe desert and local town San Pedro. The story unfolds as an astronomer working on the project meets a boy Sherpa. Together they watch the stars, trace the constellations and discover a pure fascination for the stars. Based on the interviews for the TAO project members, the story lively depicts the enthusiasm of the astronomer for the stars.

Produced by KONICA MINOLTA PLANETARIUM CO., LTD
Approximate running time: 26 minutes.

It’s a crazy day when snow starts falling and it’s the middle of summer! But sometimes crazy days are just what you need to discover something new.

Join Annie and Max for a whirlwind adventure as they explore a new angle on the world and find out how the seasons work. It’s surprising what a new angle on the world can do.

Produced by Museum Victoria
Approximate running time: 25 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and up
Exclusively distributed by Sky-Skan

Join us for an adventure through time, as we explore the past and imagine the future of the cosmos. Witness the birth of the Universe, the doom of the dinosaurs, and be there for the first landing on the moon!

Each TimeSpace travel story is presented as a destination to be experienced as if you are there.

TimeSpace Travel Stories:

The Big Bang: Back to the beginning of time and immersed within the Universe during the first minutes of its creation.

Doom of the Dinosaurs: Evidence suggests that the age of the dinosaurs ended when a giant asteroid collided with the Earth. The impact plunged the Earth into chaos and life itself was challenged. For the dinosaurs, this visitor from outer space eventually doomed them to extinction 65 million years ago.

Comet in the Yucatán Sky: In 1222AD, on the Yucatán Peninsula, the Mayan civilization had reached its zenith. Chichén Itzá was a great cultural center that had thrived for centuries but, was now in decline. How would the population and the astronomer-priests react to the sudden appearance of “a star that smokes.” Why would the gods send so special a sight into the sky?

Apollo 11—One Small Step: In July of 1969, people in America and around the world watched this epic accomplishment “live” on television. TimeSpace will recreate the Moon landing experience from a unique perspective for a new generation.

IBEX—The Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission: In 2508 The inhabitants of a busy space transportation outpost celebrate the 500th anniversary on NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission. IBEX was the first space craft to measure and map the edges of the solar system, defining for the first time exactly where the solar wind comes to a stop when it faces the interstellar medium.

To Boldly Go Forth: Imagine the future a thousand years from now. In the next millennium, humans may live and work in the outer solar system. Tomorrow’s pioneers will call an orbiting space-nation home and bold explorers might glimpse Saturn peeking through the methane clouds of Titan.

Produced by Adler Planetarium
Approximate running time: 28 minutes
Narration by Laurie Anderson
Suitable for family audiences and school groups.

Titans of the Ice Age transports viewers to the beautiful and otherworldly frozen landscapes of North America, Europe and Asia ten thousand years before modern civilization. Peer through the giant screen canvas to an ancient world of ice, the dawn of our species, a time when man shared the tundra with majestic woolly beasts.

Produced by Giant Screen Films and D3D, in association with the Field Museum of Chicago
Available in 20 and 40 minute versions
For general audiences.
Available in 3D

Touch the Stars dramatically showcases the robotic spacecraft used in the exploration of our solar system and the galaxy beyond.

The film traces the path to space through the history of NASA’s probes, orbiters, and landers—from the heart of our solar system and the surface of its planets and moons to the grand tour of the Voyager spacecraft through the outer planets and beyond.

Created with the cooperation of NASA and Lockheed Martin, and using the latest high definition imagery and scientific data, fulldome show “Touch the Stars” engages audiences through the use of real footage and 3-dimensional vistas, transporting us to planets and distant stars alongside these heroic robot explorers for an unforgettable voyage.

Produced by Afterglow Studios
Appx. running time: 26 & 38 minutes
For general audiences & children.
Transform coverage is truncated from fulldome
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

Kids love Tycho! The dog that doesn’t just howl at the moon—he goes there! See the planetarium’s favorite dog like never before with stunning new fulldome visuals.

Blast off on an amazing ride with Tycho and his young American friends, Ruby and Michael. Learn about night and day, space travel, phases of the Moon, and features of the lunar surface. Take a close-up look at the Sun, see Tycho play in zero gravity, witness Earth from space, and watch meteors shoot across the night sky. Includes the much-loved singalong song “Don’t Touch!”

Produced by Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks Museum, Museum Victoria
Running time: 21 minutes
Suitable for ages 5 and up and school groups
Exclusively Distributed by Sky-Skan