Explore explosive phenomena and black holes at the UAA Planetarium - Nov. 16, 2018
by Michelle Saport |
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.
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity, presented by UAA Planetarium Director and Professor of Astronomy Dr. Erin Hicks Friday, Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m. Tickets
This full-dome show from Thomas Lucas Productions was developed in collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, NOVA and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Liam Neeson, this cutting-edge production uses high-resolution visualizations to bring the current science of black holes onto the dome. Audiences will be dazzled with striking, immersive animations of star birth and death, the formation of the early universe and the collision of giant galaxies, as well as a simulated flight into the super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy.
Exploding Universe, presented by UAA Planetarium Director and Professor of Astronomy Dr. Erin Hicks Friday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m. Tickets
Out of devastating events in the cosmos comes new creation. Explosive phenomena are responsible for the way we see the universe today and not all of them happen on a grand scale.
When giant stars explode as supernovas, they seed the galaxies with heavy elements that make planets and life possible. Some collisions we are only just now starting to understand. For example, when black holes collide, they can throw off some of the most energetic particles known, ripping and warping space as they go. Other explosions have profound effects as well, such as the beauty and power of supervolcanoes, which have contributed to the transformation of our world into the life-bearing oasis we now enjoy. The smallest of explosions, such as the forced impact of atoms, can echo the foundation events of the early universe.
As the universe has transformed into the structure we live in now, even the most elementary particles have endured. This show follows the path of one of these particles, a proton, as it participates in nature's astounding events of rebirth and renewal.
Save the date for these upcoming shows at the UAA Planetarium & Visualization Theater:
- Friday, Nov. 30, 6:30 p.m. - Sunstruck! presented by UAA Physicist Dr. Nathaniel Hicks
- Friday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. - Stars of the Alaskan Sky, presented by UAA Astronomer Omega Smith
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