Living networks connect and support life forms large and small – from colonies of tiny microbes and populations of massive whales to ever-expanding human societies.

In the California Academy of Sciences’ latest original planetarium show, Habitat Earth, discover what it means to live in today’s connected world. Dive below the ocean’s surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in kelp forest ecosystems, travel beneath the forest floor to see how Earth’s tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive, and journey to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks.

Produced by the California Academy of Sciences
Appx. running time: 24 or 28 minutes
For general audiences.
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

On May 9, 2003, Hayabusa, a Japanese space probe, was launched aboard the M-V Launch Vehicle to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa (1998 SF36). A sample, if Hayabusa can bring one home, is believed to be a key to find out the secrets of our solar system; the birth of the Earth and solar system born some 4.6 billion years ago. Such old material is nonexistent on Earth but it is believed that an asteroid such as Itokawa may well possess it as a record of our solar system.

Hayabusa attempted to land on Itokawa after traveling approximately 2 billion kilometers (1.25 billion miles). However, its landing was no easy task. The probe body was suspected of having deep mechanical troubles. But there is no going back.

Re-positioning once again, Hayabusa dives in for a second landing attempt. It looked as though it was successful but turned into the worst crisis. Can Hayabusa return home? This show is a full CG image fulldome feature presentation with highlights of this spacecraft overcoming a series of obstacles along the journey.

Produced by Live Company Ltd. and GOTO INC. © HAYABUSA Dome-movie Production Committee
Running time: 43 and 26 minute versions available

The Heart of the Sun, a fulldome digital presentation by John Weiley – maker of multi-award winning Imax films including Antarctica, SolarMax, and the hit 3D production Imagine!— shows us the Sun as it has never been seen before.

New space-based telescopes, along with a new generation of terrestrial instruments, capture both the fine surface detail and the vast eruptions of the corona with unprecedented clarity and for the first time take us right inside a living star. Heart of the Sun delivers new breathtaking, high-resolution motion pictures never before seen in a fulldome theater.

From the Neolithic sky watchers of Europe to the solar observatories and blood sacrifice of Mesoamerica to the sun gods of the Egyptians and Greeks and the dawning of Aristotelian science, The Heart of the Sun reveals how the development of our whole cosmology has been informed by our struggle with this oldest of mysteries. Experience the story that shows how that process continues today as the sheer strangeness of our nearest star continues to challenge our imagination.

Produced by Heliograph Productions
Running time: 22 minutes
Narrated by Jack Thompson
Exclusively Distributed by Sky-Skan

Embark on a journey back in time and across the Solar System, following the paths of asteroids and comets that have collided with Earth—and those that roam far from home. These ancient objects travel billions of years before reaching Earth, and their impact can be so powerful that just one collision can change the course of life on our planet.

Scientists aren’t waiting for asteroids and comets to come to us to learn more about them—get an up-close look at spacecraft sent to rocky asteroids and icy comets to collect invaluable data. You’ll follow the trek of the Chelyabinsk meteor as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere in 2013 and visualize major shifts in the history of the Solar System billions of years in the making—and all in under an hour.

Produced by California Academy of Sciences
Approximate running time: 25 minutes
Suitable for general audiences.

Infinity Express takes the audience on an exciting journey of discovery, from the search of the solar system to the mapping of the universe.

Some of the best space visualization agencies from around the world, including the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology, contributed to the production, interpreting the script developed between the writer and experts from the Smithsonian s National Air and Space Museum.

…and the universe is slowly offering up its secrets.

Infinity Express is an immersive experience for fulldome theaters. Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) elegantly narrates the production, a remarkable blend of science, art, and entertainment that dramatically communicates the latest breakthroughs in our quest to understand the universe.

With truly stunning visual sequences and a surround sound that rumbles the theater, Infinity Express promises an unforgettable experience for audiences.

Produced by Sky-Skan
Approximate running time 23 minutes
Narrated by Laurence Fishburne
Exclusively Distributed by Sky-Skan
Suitable for family audiences.

Fly through space and explore the wonders of the Universe as science meets art on the giant screen!

In Saturn’s Rings is a groundbreaking giant-screen adventure that takes audiences on a journey of the mind, heart, and spirit, from the Big Bang to the awe-inspiring rings of Saturn. Narrated by LeVar Burton, In Saturn’s Rings is created entirely of more than 7.5 million stunning images of Earth, the Milky Way, and the Moon taken by Hubble, Cassini, and other space telescopes looking deep into the past.

In some scenes, a single photograph is used per frame, but many frames are a giant collage of thousands of photographs seamlessly joined. The film is animated to full-motion without CGI, 3D modeling, or simulations. This is real. A unique field trip and learning experience.

Produced by SV2 Studios, LLC
Appx. running time: 24 and 38 Minutes
For general audiences
Transform coverage is truncated from fulldome
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

By popular demand! This delightfully creepy short film is winning international acclaim.

Trapped in a giant semi-transparent dome, you watch as a single fly buzzes aimlessly above and finally comes to a rest on top. As the lights hauntingly flicker, a cockroach scurries over to the fly and you suddenly realize that you’re not alone – the entire dome is filling up with hundreds of creeping, crawling, slithering insects! This fulldome 3 minute short is not recommended for the easily bugged out.

Produced by UNC Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Running time: 3 minutes.

The age-old history of measuring the stars and a stunning journey through our Milky Way emergein a modern astronomy show about space science and the distances in the Universe.

Journey to a Billion Suns has been produced in cooperation with 30 planetariums and the European
Space Agency in 2014. It is entertaining, educational, impressive, emotional and highly praised by
audiences worldwide.

Produced by Adam Majorosi with the European Space Agency
Appx. running time: 30 or 45 minutes
For general audiences & school groups.
*** Educator’s Guide Available ***

Our Journey to the Stars spans billions of years, beginning on Earth and extending beyond our galaxy and into the future before returning home.

More than 13 billion years ago there was only an invisible substance called dark matter, along with hydrogen and helium gas. The stars that formed quickly exploded in supernovas, blasting out new elements, the raw materials for building new stars and planets. The gravity of dark matter collected gas into galaxies including our own Milky Way. Moving forward to about 4.5 billion years ago, we see a tightly packed group of stars, called a star cluster, in which stars of many different masses and colors are formed, including our Sun.

The most massive stars lived only briefly, and exploded in gigantic supernovas. Less massive stars were flung out of the cluster – some, like our Sun, with planets already formed and orbiting around them.

We move on our present day Sun to see how stars work from its outer layer where a million-degree corona blasts out a solar wind, to its core where atomic nuclei fuse together to release immense amounts of energy. Jumping to the future, five billion years from now, our Sun at the end of its life expands into a red giant and sheds its outer layers, leaving a white dwarf, the hot dense remnant of the Sun’s core.

Returning to the present, we explore stars in our galactic backyard that are going through all these processes now—being born, ejected from star clusters, slowly dying, and shedding matter that may someday form other stars and planets. A short trip back home shows us the familiar night sky, and the morning light of the rising Sun reveals what stars have made possible.

Produced by the American Museum of Natural History
Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg
Approximate running time: 26 minutes
Suitable for family audiences.

Raising awareness about the need to protect the endangered sea-life in our oceans. See what many are hailing as “the most ambitious and professional production for the dome to date . In a production that sets a new standard for fulldome shows, Kaluoka’hina is all that and more. As much a technological marvel as it is a wonderfully entertaining and visually captivating show.

Produced by Softmachine
Running time: 32 minutes
Suitable for family audiences
Available in 2D & 3D