UAA Planetarium shows for Dec. 22, 2017

As Alaska's largest planetarium, the UAA Planetarium & Visualization Theater is an immersive place to explore the world around us-from the smallest microbes to the most distant galaxies. See below to learn what's playing next at the UAA Planetarium.

For more information, including how to become a planetarium member, please visit uaa.alaska.edu/planetarium. Tickets to planetarium shows are on sale now at UAATix.com.

Back to the Moon for Good Friday, Dec. 22, 6:30 p.m. Tickets / Preview

Back to the Moon for Good begins with a tour through the history of lunar exploration, tracing back to the 1960s and 1970s. We hear from some of the teams racing to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon and win the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The audience is taken on a successful launch, landing and tour of the lunar surface. The show ends with an enticing visualization of a future settlement on the moon. The stunning visuals and compelling narrative of the show explain the importance of the Google Lunar XPRIZE in encouraging today's space entrepreneurs and innovators to collaborate toward building a new space economy while inspiring the next generation to "shoot for the moon."

Above Alaska Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. Tickets / Preview

The aurora are running wild in the Land of the Midnight Sun! Above Alaska takes you to the remote forests and mountains of the Great Land to experience a night under the northern lights. Shot in vivid high-resolution 4K full-dome format, the show features some of the best aurora displays from the last two years as filmed from different locations throughout the state. You'll see and experience the aurora the same way Alaskans do, but without the frostbite.

December Archive