Now available in  Mandarin:

Oceans In Space

Now available in  Spanish:

The Body Code

From Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Body Code

By request, we've added this 2012 show, a whirlwind trip through the human body.

Fly through the carotid artery; explore the eye, brain, ear, and heart. Then, shrink into a cell to see its nucleus and deoxyribonucleic acid within. Discover how DNA programs the body's cells to form the circulatory and nervous systems. Then watch from inside as lasers fight disease at the cellular level.

Now available in  Spanish:

Extrasolar Planets - discovering new worlds

New From Fiske Planetarium

Two Short NASA Mission Shows Added

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got more shows available from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream! Each is less than 7 minutes long.

Earth's Hidden Water tells the story of the original GRACE mission: the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. Learn about the twin satellites nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry", and how they measured anomalies in our planet's gravity field, collecting data about aquifer water flows and thinning ice sheets.

MUSCLES is the acronym for Measurements of the Ultraviolet Spectral Characteristics of Low-mass Exoplanetary Systems. Learn about the observations of a dozen M and K dwarf exoplanet host stars, using using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and XMM-Newton.

Fiske has more shows in production, including one about the New Horizons mission to Ultima Thule, so stay tuned!

Five Short Science Modules Added

From the production studio of SlicedTomato, we've got more shows available to rent/stream! These five mini-shows (10-15 minutes in length) present directed topics in science particularly for younger age students.

Cells and Tissue features cells and how tissue can be grown in labs. Audiences are introduced to researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and professors. Get students thinking about how they may impact the future and what careers they might like to pursue.

In Ecosystems, learn about the important roles of living and non-living factors in an ecosystem, including terms such as abiotic, consumer, community, omnivore, food web and more.

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, advection, humidity, transpiration, and even evapotranspiration are introduced and taught in The H₂O Cycle.

Is it a solid? A liquid? A gas? Does it "Matter"? It most certainly does! We are talking about GOLD! So put on your lab coat and come investigate States of Matter.

What’s it like outside? Rainy, windy, hot? Let’s check our thermometer, rain gauge and wind sock! Students will learn terms for describing and measuring Weather — and what to do if weather becomes severe!

Congratulations!

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

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EXPLORE

were award winners at the 12th Fulldome Festival in Jena Germany. Rent them today!

Now available in  Spanish:

Moles

Now available in  Polish:

EXPLORE

Now available in  Portuguese:

Larry Cat In Space

Our first new show for 2018!

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

Can a question itself be more powerful than its answer?

Have you ever pondered the really big questions, such as "What is reality?" and "Is there more to the Universe than what we perceive with our senses"?

That's what media artists Rocco Helmchen and Johannes Kraas explore in their newest creation, Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality, a scientifically inspired art and music fulldome show about the mysteries of time and space, the quantum universe, and the multiverse.

Loch Ness Productions was pleased to work with the producers on the English translation of this show (originally commissioned by the Planetarium Sternwarte Bochum in Germany). It's now ready for world-wide distribution, and should be of special interest to educators looking for creative STEM and STEAM programming.

Dimensions—Once Upon Our Reality invites audiences to let go, drift away, think big, have fun, and most of all, stay curious about physics, math, and more. It's an amazing and entertaining journey built on and inspired by science and discovery.

Rent it today!

VHX (Vimeo, actually) seems to be having problems playing fisheye movies in Firefox. Trailers just show the "Buffering" spinner, but don't load. We've notified them.

Chrome does not exhibit the problem, so for now, that's the workaround.

Here's last year's news, if you haven't been here for a while and want to catch up.

Mark C. Petersen, webmaster