The Search Beyond our Sun explores a timeless question: Do other planets like Earth exist?
Travel to distant stars and fly up close to exotic planets. Experience the science shifting our perspectives on humanity’s place in the cosmos.
Co-written with Alan Lightman, this show features an original orchestral score.
Produced by the Museum of Science, Boston
Running time: 30 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups
Educator’s guide available
Have you ever wondered what it takes to produce the kind of stunning photographs of space we are familiar with?
Using images from the international Astronomy Photographer of the Year (APY) competition, organized every year by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in England, this captivating show illustrates basic techniques, enabling anyone with a digital camera to capture spectacular images of the night sky.
Produced by Royal Observatory Greenwich
Appx. running time: 23 minutes
For general audiences.
What is time, really? Vertiges provides a fantastic playground for a skillful exploration of the philosophical, scientific and artistic aspects of time. Using fascinating images and a narrative featuring some surprising performances, Vertiges takes us on a disconcerting voyage. Audiences explore the relativity of time, the absence of time, and time as a sensory sound phenomenon. And suddenly, our traditional understanding of time comes undone.
Producer Montreal Space for Life’s Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
Appx. running time: 20 minutes
For general audiences & children.
A new magic audiovisual dimension in 360° video. Enter a magical world. Dare to believe your eyes. Nothing here is just what it seems at first glance: a postcard as a portal to a lost city, tarot cards which come to life or floating ballet dancers in virtual worlds. A symphony of sounds, pictures and emotions takes you away to a mysterious universe.
VOICES IN THE DARK is an ambitious project which Mike Batt himself described as a “music-video-art-film installation” after the screening of the first sequences. It seems like everybody has a hard time expressing this work in words.
Dramatico and Mindgames Productions
Approximate running time 43 minutes.
The movie tells a thrilling story of the most remarkable space mission in human history. In 1977 two space probes were launched to explore the farthest planets of the Solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons. These spacecraft greatly enriched our knowledge of the distant worlds.
Now after four decades they explore the interstellar space. Like two bottles launched into the cosmic ocean, both probes carry an interstellar message – the Golden Record, intended for any alien civilization.
Produced by Uma Vision
Appx. running time: 27 minutes
For general audiences
The amazing new fulldome experience We Are Aliens! explores how our understanding of life on Earth guides the hunt for alien life elsewhere in the Universe.
We Are Aliens! is a new 360° digital planetarium show narrated by Rupert Grint from the creators of the award-winning “We Are Astronomers” and “ASTRONAUT”.
Produced by NSC Creative
Narrated by Robert Grint
Approximate running time: 25 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups
Available in 2D & 3D
Today’s astronomer is not the lone observer of past centuries. We Are Astronomers reveals the global collaboration, technology and dedication required to answer the unresolved questions of the Universe.
We Are Astronomers narrated by David Tennant is an exciting new 360° Fulldome digital planetarium show produced by NSC Creative with input from UK astronomers.
Produced by NSC Creative
Approximate running time: 25 minutes
Suitable for family audiences and school groups
We follow a group of Victorian time travelers as they learn about the origins of atoms.
We witness the formation of the first hydrogen atoms after the Big Bang and then watch how those hydrogen atoms gather into galaxies and stars. We learn how the stars forged all the atoms needed to make life. We see the creation of planet Earth and follow the atoms and molecules through evolution, back to where the time travelers started their journey.
Produced by NSC Creative
For general audiences.
Available in 2D/3D
This entertaining and interactive planetarium program covers the national science standards for weather – grades K-2. Utilizing a popular animation style, a little girl and a duck make fascinating discoveries about the weather in this 3-part modular program. Module One: using the Senses to Observe Weather and Identifying Cloud Types. Module Two: Describing and Measuring the weather. Module Three: Identifying the Basic Features of the Water Cycle.
Produced by Audio Visual Imagineering
Appx. running time: 16 minutes
For children and school groups
“Whale Super Highway” is a breathtaking fulldome journey along one of the world’s busiest whale migration routes, from the top of Western Australia to Antarctica.
Join a team of experts as they attempt to unlock the secrets behind one of the greatest environmental comebacks ever — the humpback whale. If they can discover why the humpbacks are so successful on this super highway, it may help in the fight to save another mighty mammal, the largest animal ever to have lived: the endangered blue whale.
Produced by Prospero Productions
Appx. running time: 27 or 45 minutes
For general audiences & children.