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	Night Sky in August Tue, Aug 5, 2025   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child.        Learn about the night sky in this live planetarium presentation.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Aug 6, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	Fantastic Fractals Fri, Aug 8, 2025   11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Watch animated fractals swirl across the fulldome screen to music.
	Unveiling the Invisible Universe Sat, Aug 9, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Learn about the latest observations of the universe in this fulldome movie.
	Stellar Lifecycles Tue, Aug 12, 2025   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child.        Galen Gisler will discuss what we've learned how stars live out their lives.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Aug 13, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	FORWARD! To the Moon Sat, Aug 16, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Learn about NASA's plans to return to the Moon in this fulldome film.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Aug 20, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	River of Bears Sat, Aug 23, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: See description        Immerse yourself in a fulldome exploration of the world of bears in Alaska.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Aug 27, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	Fantastic Fractals Sat, Aug 30, 2025   2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Watch animated fractals swirl across the fulldome screen to music.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Sep 3, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	Night Sky in September Fri, Sep 5, 2025   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child.        Learn about the night sky in this live planetarium presentation.
	Seeing! Sat, Sep 6, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Follow the journey of a photon with the fulldome film, Seeing!
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Sep 10, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	Cosmic Mashups Sat, Sep 13, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Watch the formation of supermassive black holes in this fulldome planetarium film!
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Sep 17, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	Exoplanets and the Search for Life Fri, Sep 19, 2025   7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult; $6/child.        Learn about exoplanet discoveries and how scientists look for signs of life on these distant worlds.
	The Sun: Our Living Star Sat, Sep 20, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult, $6/child, $20/family.        Discover the secrets of our star in this planetarium show and experience never-before-seen images of the Sun’s violent surface in immersive fulldome format.
	Walk-In Planetarium Show Wed, Sep 24, 2025   4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: Free    Explore the cosmos with one of our astronomers during a lively planetarium open house, featuring a 15-minute star show followed by Q&A and sky tour requests!
	We Are Stars Sat, Sep 27, 2025   2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Audience: General Audience    Event Type: Planetarium & Astronomy Admission: $8/adult; $6/child; $20/family        Find out about the origins of universe in this animated fulldome planetarium film.

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