Now Showing in the Faulkner Planetarium

Hamster scientist Elon lives in a junk yard.  He tries to fit in with the local rats' community but nobody takes him or his (frequently unsuccessful) scientific experiments seriously.

One day, with a loud crash, a crater appears in his garden with a damaged robot inside.  How did he get here?  Elon fixes the robot, discovering that he fell from a spaceship readying for a mission to colonize Mars.

With the ship leaving in three days, can Elon return the robot to his friends onboard the ship before its departure?  Find out in this animated adventure about the courage and wits needed to get to space and back.

Open Captioning is available for this program upon request.

The starry sky is one of the most beautiful natural landscapes we can see from Earth.  Thousands of stars dotting the sky above our heads provoke that feeling of infinity and at the same time smallness.  Humans have felt this since we first turned our eyes up to the sky.

But what lies beyond?  If we were able to look farther and farther away and to study this black background of the night, what would we see?

Over the past decades large telescopes and observatories in space have spied the black background of the night and have unearthed a fascinating, dynamic and complex universe…Hundreds, thousands of astronomical objects that were hidden from our view have filled our eyes with an explosion of colors, shapes and unimaginable dimensions.

This modern image of our universe deserves to be told and known by the public.  Come with us and discover our own Deep Sky.

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A live sky tour follows the program, featuring constellations, planets, the moon and other items of interest currently visible in the sky, with tips for finding your way around in the heavens on the next clear night, and stories about the stars.

We are watery creatures inhabiting a water world—a space oasis speeding between the orbits of Venus and Mars.  Without water we cannot survive, let alone explore interplanetary space.

Water is plentiful on Earth, but space voyagers must bring water with them.  A rocket's weight greatly affects its cost and how far it can travel, so finding water within the Solar System could greatly reduce the cost and difficulty of interplanetary exploration.

This program traces water across the whole Solar System, from deep lunar craters, to the scorching heat of the Venusian atmosphere, to Martian deserts, and the giant planets' frozen satellites.  Come along to discover continent-sized ice floes; vast, hidden oceans; and the icy showers of cryovolcanoes.

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Come explore the African Serengeti in this beautiful giant screen film.  Encounter one of the world's oldest and most vibrant ecosystems, whose story is told through the million-animal, ever-moving migration of the wildebeest.  Here, each creature, from the smallest insect to the largest land mammal, has an important role to play.  What series of events happened to create this incredible ecosystem?   Can we learn its intricacies to save and protect the Serengeti?  Come see how this extraordinary place came to be.

Open Captioning is available for this program upon request.