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Deep Sky / Live Sky Tour

The starry sky is one of the most beautiful natural viewscapes 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.

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.

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Show Times

Through September 30th:

Saturdays at 6:00 p.m.

Tickets

Tickets are available in-person at the counter or get tickets online. Prices are $5.50-$7.50 per seat. Discounts are available.

Venue

The Faulkner Planetarium, Idaho's largest domed theater, features the latest in fulldome technology, capable of virtually transporting audiences around the world and to the universe's far-flung reaches. The theater can seat 144. Open captioning for the hearing impaired is available upon request for many programs.

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Available for K-12 and Group Reservations

For all its splendor, a starry sky is but a sliver of the universe, most of which is too distant and dim for the human eye to see. Telescopes and sensitive digital detectors reveal a "deep sky" of stellar birth and death, star clusters, distant galaxies, galactic collisions, the large-scale structure of the universe, and a background of cosmic radiation echoing across time.

Book This Show

You can schedule a private showing for school field trips or private events!

Private Event School Field Trip

Educational Concepts

  • The human visual system
  • Messier catalog
  • Distances in space
  • Visualization of the positions of deep sky objects
  • Milky Way galaxy
  • Local group of galaxies
  • Sponge structure of the universe
  • Laniakea supercluster of galaxies
  • Nature of various deep sky objects
  • Hubble deep- and ultra-deep-field images

Suggested Grades

5th through 12th+