One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure—Planetarium Show
Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street in One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure. Follow along with Big Bird, Elmo, and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, as they take you on a journey of discovery to learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the Sun, and the Moon.
FREE for members. $10 for non-members.
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The Hot and Energetic Universe–Planetarium Show
A 360° planetarium movie describing the achievements of modern astronomy; the variety of modern terrestrial and orbital observatories; the basic principles of electromagnetic radiation and the natural phenomena investigated by high-energy astrophysics. High-energy astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the Universe and it's hot and violent nature. The hot gas within clusters of galaxies (the most massive objects in the Universe) is studied with advanced observatories, together with the hot gas accreting around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. High energy radiation also provides important information about our own galaxy, neutron stars, supernova remnants and stars like our Sun.
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DINOSAURS: A Story of Survival—Planetarium Show
Like almost all children, Celeste is fascinated with dinosaurs. She is preparing a talk for her class about how they went extinct when Moon, a very wise and magical character, poses a tantalizing question: what if I told you that there are still dinosaurs among us. Celeste will join Moon in a journey through time. An exciting adventure that will show them the Earth as it was in the very, very distant past. They will see the fascinating transformations that these animals underwent over millions of years, creating giant creatures, armored beasts and super predators, until the day that a cataclysmic impact event caused a mass extinction on Earth. But all is not lost. Celeste will discover the key to their survival.
Ages 4+
Time: 30 min.
Members enter FREE. $10 for non-members.
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DINOSAURS: A Story of Survival—Planetarium Show
Like almost all children, Celeste is fascinated with dinosaurs. She is preparing a talk for her class about how they went extinct when Moon, a very wise and magical character, poses a tantalizing question: what if I told you that there are still dinosaurs among us. Celeste will join Moon in a journey through time. An exciting adventure that will show them the Earth as it was in the very, very distant past. They will see the fascinating transformations that these animals underwent over millions of years, creating giant creatures, armored beasts and super predators, until the day that a cataclysmic impact event caused a mass extinction on Earth. But all is not lost. Celeste will discover the key to their survival.
Ages 4+
Time: 30 min.
Members enter FREE. $10 for non-members.
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DINOSAURS: A Story of Survival—Planetarium Show
Like almost all children, Celeste is fascinated with dinosaurs. She is preparing a talk for her class about how they went extinct when Moon, a very wise and magical character, poses a tantalizing question: what if I told you that there are still dinosaurs among us. Celeste will join Moon in a journey through time. An exciting adventure that will show them the Earth as it was in the very, very distant past. They will see the fascinating transformations that these animals underwent over millions of years, creating giant creatures, armored beasts and super predators, until the day that a cataclysmic impact event caused a mass extinction on Earth. But all is not lost. Celeste will discover the key to their survival.
Ages 4+
Time: 30 min.
Members enter FREE. $10 for non-members.
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Members Only—New Planetarium Show Premiere
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
On June 26 North Museum Members are invited to the exclusive premiere of our newest planetarium show, "Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival."
Showings at 6pm and 7pm. Members always enter the museum and planetarium FREE, and on June 26 we invite you to this private, after-hours event, exclusively for you and your family.
Members are the heartbeat of North Museum and we cannot wait to show you our newest planetarium show before anyone else!
Member Registration for 6pm
Member Registration for 7pm
Not a member yet? Join by June 26 for access to this special event!
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Show Description:
Like almost all children, Celeste is fascinated with dinosaurs. She is preparing a talk for her class about how they went extinct when Moon, a very wise and magical character, poses a tantalizing question: what if I told you that there are still dinosaurs among us?
Celeste will join Moon in a journey through time. An exciting adventure that will show them the Earth as it was in the very, very distant past.
They will see the fascinating transformations that these animals underwent over millions of years, creating giant creatures, armored beasts and super predators, until the day that a cataclysmic impact event caused a mass extinction on Earth. But all is not lost. Celeste will discover the key to their survival.
One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure–Planetarium Show
Explore the night sky with your favorite friends from Sesame Street in One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure. Follow along with Big Bird, Elmo, and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu, as they take you on a journey of discovery to learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the Sun, and the Moon.
FREE for members. $10 for non-members.
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Watch the planetarium show trailer below.
Supervolcanoes–Planetarium Show
The scene was 74,000 years ago, on the island of Sumatra. A volcanic eruption triggered the sudden and violent collapse of a vast regional plateau. Toba, as the volcano is known today, was the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years. But Earth has seen far larger. 250 million years ago, an eruption in what’s now Siberia lasted a million years and was probably responsible for the greatest episode of mass extinction in Earth’s history.
Supervolcanoes is an immersive planetarium show that looks back at rare classes of eruptions that have marshaled the energy that lurks, like a sleeping dragon, beneath the surface of planet Earth. The program moves beyond Earth to explore the impact of giant volcanic eruptions around our solar system. Audiences will fly down to Neptune’s frigid moon Triton, and onto the ultimate volcanic world: Jupiter’s moon Io. On a visit to a legendary North American hot spot, Yellowstone National Park, the film asks: can a supervolcano erupt in our time?
Watch planetarium show trailer below.
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket—Planetarium Show
Adventure through the solar system in the Cardboard Rocket! One of the most popular shows in the fulldome industry world-wide. Travel with two children and their navigator, the talking astronomy book. Visit the Sun, the planets, the Moon and more. The narration track was edited in 2007 for the reclassification of Pluto to dwarf planet. References to "smallest planet," "ninth planet," and "last planet" were removed and Pluto is simply termed a planet in view of it being a new category of planet.
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Watch: Total Lunar Eclipse, North Museum Astronomer Answers Questions
March 13, 2025. Cole Penkunas, resident astronomer at North Museum of Nature and Science in Lancaster Pennsylvania, explains what you can expect from this week's total lunar eclipse on WGAL8. What did he have to say about the Blood Worm Moon in March, 2025?
North Museum's Planetarium has live shows every month! View the Calendar to see the next available Nigh Sky Tour.