Now Showing in the Faulkner Planetarium

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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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.

A typical day for GranPa and Zoe in the Australian outback is interrupted when GranPa's old nemesis, Bogbog, attempts to block sunlight from reaching Earth.  It's up to GranPa and Zoe to put a stop to Bogbog's diabolical scheme.  Exploring and utilizing different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, the heroes hope to foil Bogbog while delving into the nature of color and light, and save the day.

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.

A magical expedition with a 24-year-old marine biologist, Anna Cresswell, reveals intimate secrets of one of the world’s largest fringing coral reefs, stretching 260 km along the northwest coast of Western Australia and visible from space.  Travel in a two-person submarine, Odyssea, on an underwater adventure to explore an environment rich in coral, a highway for the planet's largest and smallest fish, including the whale shark.
This live action, fulldome film is an immersive voyage of discovery as we witness Ningaloo Reef and a rare natural wonder and spectacle of life: coral spawning.

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