Upcoming Shows

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Rising Stars of Prescott

Are you interested in getting to know your night sky? Join Suzy Gurton for this live planetarium program that will show you what constellations, planets, meteor showers and more will be coming to the Prescott skies for your viewing pleasure. The content for this program changes every month it is shown. Telescope viewing will be available after the evening shows, weather permitting.

Show Times:

• SOLD OUT - Friday, Oct. 17: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 18: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Ticket Price: $8.00

Dark Matter Differences Beyond the Milky Way: Mass Modeling the Andromeda Dwarf Galaxies

Dwarf galaxies within the Local Group cannot typically be held together by their stellar matter alone, leaving them as valuable laboratories for dark matter investigations. Dark matter mapped in the dwarf galaxies around our Milky Way show different distributions than those around the spiral galaxy in Andromeda (M31). Join Connor Pickett, a returning ERAU alum, as he discusses results from his PhD research that show these differences and possible reasons for them. Does Andromeda's more active merger history and tidal interactions significantly influence the properties of its dwarf galaxies, and could investigating these factors lead to an improvement in our understanding of dark matter? This is a more technical science talk than our usual planetarium shows and will give you an opportunity to talk to the astronomer.

Show Times:

• Thursday, Oct. 30: 6 p.m.

Uncovering Black Holes

From the collapsed cores of massive stars to the dark, unfathomable behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies, in this live show we will explore the wealth of knowledge scientists have gathered about black holes across the universe. With the help of tools like the Event Horizon Telescope, we now know more about these mysterious objects than ever before, but how much can we truly discover about something that is so very good at offering only one-way trips within its depths?

Show Times:

• Friday, Oct. 31: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 1: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Ticket Price: $8.00

Storytime Under the Stars

The night sky can be a source of wonder, spark curiosity, inspire silly adventures, and connect us to our ancestors across space and time. Join us while we read some fun, wacky and even poignant children’s books that take place on other planets and other vistas across the universe in the future, the past and in the imagination.

Show Times:

• Saturday, Nov. 1: 11 a.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 22: 11 a.m.

Ticket Price: $8:00

Whale Super Highway

Whale Super Highway follows humpback whales and blue pygmy whales on their 4,000-mile migration down the coast of Western Australia to the freezing waters of Antarctica and back again. Whale Super Highway provides a stunning look at life in the waters of Western Australia. It reveals fascinating information about whales — while underscoring how much we still have to learn.

Show Times:

• Friday, Nov. 14: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 15: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Ticket Price: $10

The Arctic

Imagine a place in America that is vast, wild and untouched, where some of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles unfold. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located in the northeastern corner of Alaska, is one of the wildest places left on the planet — a symbol of wilderness that few have ever seen. This is an IMAX show adapted for planetarium viewing.

Show Times:

• Friday, Nov. 21: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 22: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Ticket Price: $10.00

Private Planetarium Events

To host your own private event in the Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium, fill out and submit our Conference Request Form.