Planetarium Programs
Special Event — May 3
Regular Planetarium Schedule
Planetarium Programs are included with admission.
One World, One Sky
Big Bird’s Adventure
10:00 a.m.
Weekends Only
Saturday, April 27: Show time at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 4: Show cancelled
One World, One Sky begins on Sesame Street when Elmo’s friend, Hu Hu Zhu, visits from China.
Together, Big Bird, Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu locate the Big Dipper, the North Star, and the Moon in the night sky. Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu want to learn more about the Moon, so Big Bird suggests that they use their imagination to travel there.
Back on Earth, Big Bird, Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu realize that even though they live in two different countries, they still share the same sky.
One Sky Project
11:00 a.m.
One Sky Project is an international collaboration focused on increasing understanding about cultural and indigenous astronomy, its historical and modern applications, and how our One Sky connects us all.
Enjoy stories, presented in a series of short films, about the night sky from Hawaiʻi and cultures across the globe.
Films
The Samurai and the Stars (Japan)
The Forge of Artemis (Greece)
Thunderbird (Navajo)
Celestial Canoe (Canada)
Hawaiian Wayfinders (Hawaiʻi)
A Tale of Three Planets
12:00 p.m.
Did you know that millions of years ago Mars likely had oceans? And its geological activity created the largest volcano in the solar system?
Or, that Venus’ proximity to the Sun and rampant volcanic activity has led to a runaway greenhouse effect?
Our Solar System is home to a number of worlds, each with their own fascinating histories. By understanding how our closest neighbors – Venus and Mars – have changed, we can gain insight into Earth’s past, present, and future.
Delve into the distinctive geological and climate histories of our nearest planetary neighbors in this live program to see how climate, geology, and circumstance have shaped the worlds that we see today.
Fragile Planet
1:00 p.m.
Travel 120 million light years to rediscover home!
Earth, our only known haven for life, inhabits a special place in the cosmos. Sigourney Weaver guides us on an immersive excursion that will inspire a new perspective on our home world.
After a close-up look at Earth, we visit planets and moons in our solar system in search of hideouts for life, and then venture outward to exo-planets and beyond.
This visually intense program uses the latest visualization techniques to weave together observed data, including high resolution satellite and spacecraft imagery, terrain maps, and pinpoint positioning of stars, exoplanets and galaxies.
Awesome Light 2:
Seeing the Invisible
3:00 p.m.
How do we see the invisible? By using different kinds of eyes!
Seeing the Invisible takes the audience to Maunakea and the radio and submillimeter observatories located there.
In this episode, we see the remnants of a comet collision with Jupiter using the Submillimeter Array, fly into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy and see gas flows there from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, study star formation in the Whirlpool galaxy from Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, and explore the largest black hole and jet in the Universe with the Very Long Baseline Array.
The program uses dramatic footage of each of these observatories.