Dorrance Planetarium
One of the largest, most technologically advanced planetariums in the United States. In 1997, the Planetarium opened its doors and over two million guests have visited. Arizona Science Center's Dorrance Planetarium features a NanoSeam design. The dome is the world's first of its kind at a science center or museum.
Generously supported by: Richard F. Caris Foundation
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Arizona Skies
- 11:30 AM
Discover the current night sky and hear stories about the different constellations visible this time of year. This show concludes with a spin through the cosmos.
Grand Tour of the Solar System
- 10:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 2:30 PM
Voyage through our spectacular solar system and visit each planet, comparing and contrasting their features.
Dark
- 1:30 PM
- 3:30 PM
Dark is a full dome movie that explains and explores the nature of Dark Matter, the missing 80% of the mass of the Universe. The search for Dark Matter is the most pressing astrophysical problem of our time – the solution to which will help us understand why the Universe is as it is, where it came from, and how it has evolved over billions of years – the unimaginable depths of deep time, of which a human life is but a flickering instant.
Arizona Skies
- 1:30 PM
Discover the current night sky and hear stories about the different constellations visible this time of year. This show concludes with a spin through the cosmos.
Grand Tour of the Solar System
- 10:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 2:30 PM
Voyage through our spectacular solar system and visit each planet, comparing and contrasting their features.
Solar Superstorms
- 12:30 PM
- 3:30 PM
Solar Superstorms takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun's rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system: Coronal Mass Ejections.
Arizona Skies
- 1:30 PM
Discover the current night sky and hear stories about the different constellations visible this time of year. This show concludes with a spin through the cosmos.
Grand Tour of the Solar System
- 10:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 2:30 PM
Voyage through our spectacular solar system and visit each planet, comparing and contrasting their features.
Solar Superstorms
- 12:30 PM
- 3:30 PM
Solar Superstorms takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun's rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system: Coronal Mass Ejections.
Arizona Skies
- 1:30 PM
Discover the current night sky and hear stories about the different constellations visible this time of year. This show concludes with a spin through the cosmos.
Grand Tour of the Solar System
- 10:30 AM
- 12:30 PM
- 2:30 PM
Voyage through our spectacular solar system and visit each planet, comparing and contrasting their features.
Solar Superstorms
- 12:30 PM
- 3:30 PM
Solar Superstorms takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun's rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the solar system: Coronal Mass Ejections.
