'Neurotours' and ' Natural Selection' play at UAA Planetarium Aug. 10, 2018

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 this Friday,Aug. 10, at the UAA Planetarium.

For more information, including how to become a planetarium member, please visit uaa.alaska.edu/planetarium.

Neurotours, presented by UAA Biology Professor Rachael Hannah, Ph.D. Friday, Aug. 10, 6:30 p.m. Tickets

In Neurotours, the latest neuro-imaging technology becomes our observatory to discover the inner frontier of human consciousness. Through a live-presented planetarium show, real brain images come alive around us as we scale our inner universe.

During the tour, we'll explore imagery on scales ranging from the size of the entire head down to the sub-cellular scale, millions of times smaller. We'll fly through the skull to the outer layers of the cerebral cortex, exploring sub-components of the brain, wandering through neurons and much more.

Throughout the journey, you get an unprecedented view of our place in the universe, and in turn, where the universe is represented in our brain (it is!). For most people, Neurotours is their first immersive live-travel inside a real human brain... a truly mind-blowing experience!

Natural Selection, presented by microbiologist Catherine Pongratz Friday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m. Tickets

In Victorian times many physical phenomena had already been discovered and described by natural laws, but life's most eloquent mechanism was still unknown. Join the young Charles Darwin on an adventurous voyage of exploration circumnavigating the world with the H.M.S. Beagle. Hear Darwin himself reveal the simple and beautiful mechanism that explains the evolution of all life on Earth: Natural Selection.

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