Coming Soon to the Planetarium

Imagine a place vast, wild, and untouched, where some of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles unfold.  For five years, Florian Schulz has lived in and filmed the Arctic to reveal it to audiences around the globe.  Join Florian as he tracks the Porcupine Caribou herd on the longest animal migration on Earth, and witnesses pregnant female polar bears denning along the coastal plain.

Northeastern Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the wildest places left on the planet – an iconic wilderness that few have ever seen.  The Arctic: Our Last Great Wilderness, the first cinematic exploration of this little-known land, brings you to a world that has evolved intact and wild since the beginning of time.

Produced by Terra Mater Factual Studios, distributed by Cosmic Picture, and written and directed by veteran IMAX® producer Myles Connolly and award-winning photographer and cinematographer Florian Schulz.

Life, the ability to reproduce, metabolize, grow, and adapt, thrives across our world, but might it exist elsewhere in our solar system, or on exoplanets orbiting other stars? Lifeforms inhabit some incredibly inhospitable environments on Earth. Dark Biosphere explores the hidden realm of extremophiles, organisms that thrive in hellish environments, and delves into how their existence informs our search for life beyond Earth. Could such organisms spread from world to world by a process known as panspermia? Discover the possibilities with narrator Viggo Mortensen.

Narrated by Viggo Mortensen, directed by Javier Bollain, and produced by Render Area.

Our star, the Sun, goes through an 11 year cycle, building from relative quiescence to substantial sunspot activity and eruptions of prominences across its surface. During solar maximum, the Sun can discharge floods of charged particles into space via coronal mass ejections. Most never cross paths with our planet, but those that do can affect space weather around the globe and spawn beautiful auroral displays. While most geomagnetic storms are relatively harmless, occasionally the Sun spews forth a storm of particles so extreme it becomes a superstorm, with the potential to wreak havoc on our technologically dependent society.

Discover the nature of our star and the danger it can pose.

The Sun has shone on our world for four and a half billion years, providing the energy that drives the winds, our weather, and all life. The passage of the Sun's fiery disc across the sky – day by day, month by month – is the way civilization tracks time. As a typical dwarf star, the Sun consumes 600 million tons of hydrogen each second and is 500 times as massive as all the planets combined.

Discover the secrets of our star and experience never-before-seen images of the Sun's violent surface in an immersive format.

After the show, a live show presenter takes you on a tour of the current night sky, including tips for locating the planets, how to find constellations, and ancient myths about the stars.