Events

This is our "classic" night sky show, but not like you remember it! Take a relaxing look at the night sky as one of our skilled "Console Captains" gives you a guided tour of the stars, planets, constellations and current events happening in the night sky. This live show is never the same and there is always a surprise in store.

Recommended for general audiences.
Themes: Stars, planets, constellations, mythology
Style: Live presentation

This planetarium show takes you on an extraordinary journey into unseen worlds and hidden dimensions beyond our normal vision to uncover the mysteries of things too fast, too slow, too small or simply invisible. The film uses innovative high-speed and time-lapse photography, electron microscopy, and nanotechnology to transport audiences to an enthralling secret world of nature, events, and breathtaking phenomena not visible to the naked eye.

Recommended for general audiences.
Themes: Light spectrum, scale, optical sciences
Style: Fulldome film followed by live star talk

Where do they come from? Where do they go? How do we find them? Is there one on Earth's Horizon? What was Einstein's connection to them? Black Holes takes you on a fully immersive journey thought one of the most mystifying, awe-inspiring phenomena in the universe: a black hole.

Recommended for general audiences.
Themes: Black holes, astrophysics, stars, supernovae
Style: Fulldome film followed by live star talk

Explore both levels of hands on exhibits.
Duration: about 1 hour
Want to see a planetarium show? Don't forget to add the experience prior to completing registration.

Sit back and enjoy a showing of your choice in the planetarium theater.
Duration: about 1 hour
Would you like to visit the Science Center Exhibits? Don't forget to add the experience prior to completing registration.

Explore both levels of hands on exhibits.
Duration: about 1 hour
Want to see a planetarium show? Don't forget to add the experience prior to completing registration.

A fun, gorgeously animated fulldome show about cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins, this dazzling film reveals how hydrogen and carbon, the very building blocks of life, formed in the universe and then brings it all back to us – we are made of stars!

Recommended for younger audiences.
Themes: Stars, element formation
Style: Fulldome animated film followed by star talk

The Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium inspires visitors of all ages with the wonders of science. Located on the University of Arizona campus, Flandrau offers hands-on science exhibits about science topics from earth to space, and more. 

Sit back and enjoy a showing of your choice in the planetarium theater.
Duration: about 1 hour
Would you like to visit the Science Center Exhibits? Don't forget to add the experience prior to completing registration.

Explore both levels of hands on exhibits.
Duration: about 1 hour
Want to see a planetarium show? Don't forget to add the experience prior to completing registration.