Public Planetarium Shows

Bring your curiosity, let us do the rest! Visit the starry night in our dome and explore the cosmos. Let’s discover the universe together!

Buying Tickets

Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for SFCC/SCC students with valid ID and children ages 3-18. Tickets are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged for a different show time/date. The Planetarium is in Building 28, Room 142.

These one-hour presentations include both a night sky discussion along with a full dome feature film. While the presentations are appropriate for all ages, we have special presentations of Earth, Moon & Sun for our younger audiences.

Fall Schedule

Dark Universe

Dark Universe celebrates a new age of discovery in the cosmos and investigates two of its deepest mysteries: dark matter and dark energy. Explore the Milky Way galaxy with exploding supernovas, and spectacular scenes the Galileo probe’s breathtaking plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date:October 23, 2025.
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets are on sale now. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Earth, Moon & Sun

Why do the Sun, Moon, and stars seem to move across the sky? Why are different evening star patterns visible at different times of the year? Why does the Moon seem to change shape from time to time? This amusing and educational planetarium show explores the relationship between Earth, Moon and Sun.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: November 13, 2025.
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tickets go on sale October 13, 2025. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Black Holes

Audiences will be dazzled with striking, immersive animations of the formation of the early universe, star birth and death, the collision of giant galaxies, and a simulated flight to a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy.

The Saturday presentation will instead feature Earth, Moon and Sun for our specially designated “Kid Shows”. See the movie description below!

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: December 4, 2025.
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale November 3, 2025. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Winter Schedule

Solar Superstorms

Solar Superstorms takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system - coronal mass ejections.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: January 15, 2026.
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale December 15, 2025. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Earth, Moon & Sun

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: February 19, 2026
Time: at 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Tickets go on sale January 19. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

Earth, Moon, and Sun (Winter) Tickets

Secret Lives of Stars

Not all stars are created equal. The specific characteristics of a star will determine what type of life it will lead, how long it might live and even the type of death it will die. Explore the life cycles and diversity of stars in the universe.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: March 12, 2026.
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale February 9, 2026. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Spring Schedule

Gravity Revealed

Shows start promptly at their designated times!

Why do things fall? Gravity, the attractive force. But what if that attractive force didn’t exist? If there’s no pull, what causes objects to fall? The answer to that question is an amazing one indeed. It’s time to unlock the secrets of gravity.

The Saturday presentation will instead feature Earth, Moon and Sun for our specially designated “Kid Shows”. See the movie description below!

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: April 16, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale March 16, 2026. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Dynamic Earth

Dynamic Earth explores the inner workings of Earth’s global climate and follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: May 14, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale April 13. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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Planet Nine

With all the controversy surrounding Pluto’s status as a planet it is easy to lose track of the bigger story—a rich new class of worlds is being uncovered in the outer solar system. These discoveries strongly suggest that there may be an unknown world, far beyond the other eight planets, a world much larger than anything discovered in that region so far. Come join astronomer Mike Brown, “Pluto Killer,” on the journey toward the scientific discovery of the century—the discovery of Planet Nine. Adler Planetarium/Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics.

Cost: Adults $8, Students with ID and kids $6
Date: June 4, 2026
Time: 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale May 4. Shows start promptly at their designated times!

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