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Current ScheduleReserve your tickets and manage your reservations here. Tickets may be available at the door, but this is not guaranteed. If a show is sold out you can choose to be added to the waiting list, and you will be notified if seats become available. Please note that if you are late, your reserved tickets may be given away to those without reservations.
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| June 19, 2013 |
| Exploring the Solar System |
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Mariner? Messenger? Voyager? Pioneer? Viking? Phoenix? Juno? Cassini? You may have heard the names of these interplanetary probes and landers, but what have we learned from them and where did they go? In this show we'll follow some famous probes through the Solar System to see what they saw and try to appreciate the vast wealth of knowledge these missions have given us.
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| June 26, 2013 |
| The Southern Night Sky Shall Rise Again |
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Have you ever wondered what the southern night sky looks like? Well now is your chance to take a peek at the wonderful southern sky without flying to the southern hemisphere. Come join us at the planetarium as we explore the many objects in the southern skies such as the Magellanic Clouds, constellations, globular star clusters and more.
| | Show Times: 7:00pm |
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| July 3, 2013 |
| Introductory Astronomy for Kids |
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Join us at the planetarium for a show especially geared towards a younger audience (around 8-15years old) and their family members. We'll first take you on a tour around the night skies seen from Hamilton, and then on to the planets in our Solar System. Along the way, other fascinating objects inside and outside of our own Galaxy will also be shown if time and interest permit.
| | Show Times: 7:00pm |
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| July 10, 2013 |
| Extreme Weather in Space and on Alien Worlds |
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Weather is something that exists not just on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe. The Sun is the most powerful energy source in the Solar System and drives most of the weather we experience on Earth. Sometimes, though, the weather can come straight from outer space, in the form of a solar wind that threatens to destroy satellites, shut down communications, and knock out electricity, but causing beautiful aurorae in the process. Weather exists on other planets, too. We'll look at some extreme weather in the worlds of our Solar System: dust storm on Mars, acid rain on Venus, and a giant hurricane on Jupiter large enough to swallow the Earth. As we begin to find planets elsewhere in our Galaxy, it's hard not to imagine what the weather might be like on distant worlds. We'll explore some of the things we expect to find: waterworlds, ice planets, and stormy gas giants.
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| July 17, 2013 |
| Celestial Motions |
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How does the sky work? Why, how and when does the Moon change position? Why does a constellation near the northern horizon look to move in one direction, while the stars overhead are moving in the opposite direction? How does a planet look different from a star, and which way are the planets moving? In this show, we.ll learn how all the heavenly objects move around in the sky . over through the course of the night, seasons, a year, generations, and 100,000.s of years!
| | Show Times: 7:00pm |
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| July 24, 2013 |
| Meet the Neighbours |
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For an unremarkable star, in an unremarkable spot in the Milky Way our Sun hosts a pretty remarkable planetary system. From the terrestrial planets to the icy Kuiper Belt the formation of our Solar System has challenged our understanding of planet building. We will start the journey from the early formation of the planets and explain why they look like they do. We'll then explore some of the more interesting features and oddities of the Solar System. Finally we'll end with the discovery of many more icy, remote worlds past Pluto and why their discovery lead to the reclassification of planets that eventually cost Pluto it's 'planet' title.
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| July 31, 2013 |
| The Sun and its Long-Lost Siblings |
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Our Sun is a star very much like any other, but without it, life on Earth could not exist. Most stars form in clusters containing hundreds to thousands of stars and our Sun is no exception. Join us as we learn about our Sun, the stellar birth cluster in which it formed, and its long-lost companions.
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