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Don Harrington Discovery Center

Our newly updated, full-dome planetarium transports visitors across space and time in a variety of amazing adventures. Voyage to the furthest reaches of our galaxy to examine black holes, stars and planets; travel back in time to investigate ancient civilizations; or visit the deepest parts of our oceans and explore an active coral reef!

The Space Theater shows are included in general admission price. Seating capacity is 90 people per showing.

Tuesday – Saturday
11:00 am – Zula Patrol
12:00 pm -Distant Worlds Alien Life- NEW!
1:00 pm – Grossology & You
2:00 pm – Sun Struck
3:00 pm – Saturn the Ring World
Sunday
1:00 pm – Grossology & You
2:00 pm – Sun Struck
3:00 pm – Saturn the Ring World

Now Showing

Zulu Patrol

Showing Tuesday-Saturday at 11:00am.
30 minutes

A research mission gone awry, an interplanetary villain and a tour of the solar system are all featured in this animated full-dome film based on the award-winning PBS television series. Viewers join the Zula Patrol as they gather samples of weather for scientist Multo’s research. As the Zula Patrol attempt to stop Dark Truder’s nefarious plan to become ruler of the universe, visitors will explore and compare the types of weather found on each planet in our solar system and discover the elements which combine to create weather.

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Distant Worlds-Alien Life

Showing Monday-Saturday at 12:00 Noon.
51 Minutes

‘Distant Worlds – Alien Life?’ is a beautiful planetarium film exploring one of the most enduring questions of humankind — are we alone? For millennia our ancestors watched the stars, questioning the origin and nature of what they saw. Still today we ask these questions, knowing that the Universe is a vast place filled with billions and billions of stars and planets — but yet, Earth is the only planet we know for sure to be inhabited. Discover more about this ancient question of life in the Universe, in the full length film “Distant Worlds- Alien Life” at the Don Harrington Discovery Center.

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Grossology & You

Showing Tuesday- Sunday 1:00pm.
27 minutes
Join Noreen Neuron, host of the “Personal Universe” game show, as she leads us through a competition to decide which body system is the best and brightest. Will it be Scabby (the immune system), Boogie (the respiratory system), or Flatus (the digestive system)? Laugh and learn as these animated characters explore the inner workings of the human body!

Sunstruck

Showing Tuesday-Sunday at 2:00 pm.
20 Minutes

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.

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Saturn the Ring World

Showing Tuesday-Sunday at 3:00 pm.
22 Minutes

Saturn is the true “Lord of the Rings”. After nearly seven years in transit, the two-story Cassini-Huygens spacecraft began orbiting Saturn on July 1, 2004. Cassini continues to explore Saturn and its moons during its extended mission, while the Huygens probe had landed on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The Cassini Saturn encounter began with a flyby of Saturn’s farthest moon, Phoebe. See Saturn up-close and all-around-you inside our dome theater.