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Public Planetarium Shows
Join us for an unforgettable night under the stars! Public shows are offered on select evenings each month in our 90-seat, 40-foot domed planetarium.
Each program features a live tour of the current night sky—including stars, constellations, and planets—plus highlights of unique celestial events. You'll also enjoy a captivating award-winning full-dome space film, all in one immersive experience.
🎟 Tickets
Tickets are available online at:
👉 https://www.ticketleap.events/events/glastonburyplanetarium
A limited number of tickets may be available in-person on the day of the show.
Please do not call or visit the GEHMS office regarding ticket sales.
🚪 Arrival & Seating
Doors open 15–30 minutes before showtime.
We strongly recommend arriving at least 15 minutes early, as shows begin promptly and no late entry is permitted due to the dark environment inside the dome.
🎬 Program Details
Each show runs approximately 60–90 minutes and includes a combination of live presentation and full-dome movie.
Due to the dark and immersive setting, shows are recommended for ages 6 and up.
Fall Shows 2025
Fall Shows 2025
Solar Superstorms
Solar Superstorms
September 18, 2025 at 6 pm
A fury is building on the surface of the Sun – high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave that reaches 100,000 kilometers high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these strange phenomena? How will they affect planet Earth? Find the answers as we venture into the seething interior of our star.
Solar Superstorms is a major new production that 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.
The show features one of the most intensive efforts ever made to visualize the inner workings of the sun, including a series of groundbreaking scientific visualizations computed on the giant new supercomputing initiative, Blue Waters, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois.
Brace yourself for the onslaught of the next… Solar Superstorm.
The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
A co-production of Spitz Creative Media, NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, and Thomas Lucas Productions, Inc., in association with the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado (Boulder). This project has been made possible with support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Film Office, and with funding by the National Science Foundation.
Messengers of Time & Space
Messengers of Time & Space
October 23, 2025 at 6 pm
As we gaze upward with our unaided eyes, the sky appears as it did to our ancestors – a Universe seemingly calm and tranquil. Yet, we also know space to be an active place, where dynamic events can be observed unfolding — even on human timescales — including newly discovered asteroids, violent stellar explosions, and colliding black holes. Novel technologies are now exposing these fascinating “time-domain events” in unprecedented ways. This exciting show opens audiences to intriguing new discoveries made by an array of specialized telescopes and other instruments, unveiling the Universe as never before.
The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
Created by International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor
Mars The Ultimate Voyage
Mars The Ultimate Voyage
November 20, 2025 at 6 pm
Learn more about what the first journey to Mars might look like in new planetarium show!
Ever wondered what it will take for astronauts to travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond? On this long journey, what challenges will astronauts face? How will they stay motivated and healthy on their spacecraft so far away from Earth? The new, Bell original planetarium show Mars: The Ultimate Voyage, explores these questions and more!
On a two year journey to Mars astronauts will face extraordinary challenges—long distance, a closed environment, isolation, altered gravity, radiation. What will it take to get astronauts to Mars—and back—safely? This new, animated planetarium production highlights NASA research and training initiatives that are preparing the next generation of astronauts who will head to Mars. The film shows how creativity, collaboration, communication, and expertise in a diverse number of fields are key for the success of deep space travel—while also inspiring the next generation of STEM professionals! Witness what it takes to embark on the first human mission beyond Earth’s orbit.
The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
The Bell Museum collaborated with NASA and the UNC Morehead Planetarium and Science Center to create this new planetarium show. The work was funded by a NASA Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) Award 80NSSC20M0028 to the Bell Museum through the Regents of the University of Minnesota.
Zodiac
Zodiac
December 18, 2025 at 6 pm
Celestial movements spanning three and a half years in 35 minutes. The space time machine of the planetarium makes it possible! ZODIAC conveys fundamental celestial phenomena in an easily understandable manner. To achieve this in the real world, you would have to study the sky for three and a half years. In the Planetarium's a lot easier. In addition, you will be able to look a few hours ahead into the future! ZODIAC offers the best possible introduction to finding your way around the sky. Visitors learn about the Pole Star and the Plough as aids to orientation; they discover why the moon changes its appearance, follow the moon on its flight through the heavens and observe how it obscures the sun, causing an eclipse. They accompany the sun on its apparent journey through the heavens and discover the constellations of the Zodiac. Comparisons are made of the sun's path and the starry splendor of the summer and winter skies.
The presentation concludes with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
Created by the Verkehrshaus Planetarium
Faster Than Light
Faster Than Light
January 22, 2026 at 6 pm
The impulse to strike out into the unknown, to see what’s over the horizon… is as old as humanity. Today, a whole new horizon beckons. Scientists now believe that our galaxy is filled with solar systems, including up to 9 billion Sun-like stars with planets similar to Earth. Astronomers are racing to find habitable worlds, including any that might exist in the neighborhood of our Sun. But if we find one, how will we ever get there? How long will it take? What rocket designs might one day conquer the voids of space? Faster Than Light: the dream of interstellar flight will dazzle audiences with virtual rides aboard spacecraft of the future.
The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
The show is narrated by award-winning actor Sean Bean and won the Director’s Award at the 2017 Fulldome Festival Brno at the Brno Observatory in the Czech Republic.
Sunstruck
Sunstruck
February 12, 2026 at 6 pm
Travel back to the beginning of time and experience the birth of the Sun. Discover how it came to support life, how it threatens life as we know it, and how its energy will one day fade away. "Sunstruck" takes us on a journey to discover the wonders of our magnificent star and investigate how it has supported life on Earth for millennia.
This program includes information on the structure of the sun, the source of its energy and how solar activity impacts our world. Located in the center of our solar system, our sun is an average star. Learn about its mass, gases, temperatures and energy… and its fate in the far distant future.
The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
Created by The Michigan Science Center
Schedule is subject to change. All ticket sales are final.
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