Enter Stellar
Step into the Eos Foundation Planetarium Theatre for an unforgettable journey through space and science. With 146 premium seats, 4K fulldome projection, immersive Dolby 5.1 surround sound, and assistive listening technology, every show is designed to pull you into the wonders of science.
From breathtaking fulldome films and live star talks to dazzling Laser Light Music Shows, there are entertaining and educational adventures on the horizon. See our public showtimes below. For private events, peruse the show catalog.
Buy tickets online or in person. Popular shows may sell out!
Ranked a USA TODAY 2026 top ten planetarium in the country
Planetarium Show + Science Exhibit Tickets
Show tickets include one planetarium show + access to all science center exhibits and activities
*Museums for All program: Please present card upon arrival. Must be purchased in-person. Limit 4 people per cardholder. Single families only, not for businesses/organizations.
Know before you go: All transactions are credit/debit card only. Shows start promptly, and walk-in late arrivals may be denied entry. Tickets are non-refundable, so please arrive at least 10 minutes early and allow extra time for parking. Discounted rates and passes do not apply to special or sold-out events. Unaccompanied children under 16 are not allowed.
Subtítulos en español están disponibles para algunas funciones previa solicitud. Consulta el catálogo de funciones para ver la lista.
Showtimes
2:00 PM - Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather takes you to the front lines of our planet’s most intense natural forces—from melting glaciers and massive tornadoes to raging wildfires. Stunning visuals and expert insight reveal how climate change fuels these powerful, interconnected events.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: IMAX film adapted for planetarium + Earth science talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Laser Light Music Night
🅿️ Saturday Parking Advisory – Nov. 14: Due to the football game and the televised Big Noon event on campus, expect heavy traffic and limited parking. Please consider alternate transportation to Flandrau and allow extra travel time.
Saturday admission will be discounted to $8 (exhibits)–$16 (show combo) per person. Thank you for planning ahead—we look forward to exploring with you!
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
2:00 PM - Dark Biosphere
Deep beneath the earth's crust, hundreds of kilometres below the surface, with no light, no air, and very little water, in pores and fissures of hard rock, scientists have found an enormous biodiversity of micro-organisms that thrive in extreme conditions.
The Dark Biosphere challenges everything we thought we knew and challenges us to rethink not only the origin and evolution of life on Earth but its possible existence throughout the Universe.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
2:00 PM - Dark Biosphere
Deep beneath the earth's crust, hundreds of kilometres below the surface, with no light, no air, and very little water, in pores and fissures of hard rock, scientists have found an enormous biodiversity of micro-organisms that thrive in extreme conditions.
The Dark Biosphere challenges everything we thought we knew and challenges us to rethink not only the origin and evolution of life on Earth but its possible existence throughout the Universe.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Flandrau is closed on Mondays in order to provide you with better experiences during the week! See you Tuesday through Sunday from 10AM to 5PM.
2:00 PM - 5000 Eyes
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is creating the most detailed map of our nearby universe. Installed on the Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak in Southern Arizona, DESI's 5000 independently operated robots can measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. Join us as we explore the science, instrument, and people behind this global endeavor.
Recommended for general audiences.
Themes: astronomy, telescopes, James Webb
Style: Full-dome film followed by a short talk about the James Webb Space Telescope
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
2:00 PM - Messengers of Time and Space
Messengers of Time and Space takes you on a thrilling journey through the dynamic universe. Discover how cutting-edge observatories like Gemini and Rubin capture real-time cosmic events—from exploding stars to mysterious cosmic rays—with stunning visuals and stories.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
2:00 PM - Mysteries of the Unseen World
Mysteries of the Unseen World reveals the hidden wonders all around us—too fast, too slow, or too small for the naked eye. Stunning visuals and cutting-edge science uncover a mind-blowing world you’ve never seen before.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: IMAX film adapted for planetarium + live star talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
2:00 PM - Dark Biosphere
Deep beneath the earth's crust, hundreds of kilometres below the surface, with no light, no air, and very little water, in pores and fissures of hard rock, scientists have found an enormous biodiversity of micro-organisms that thrive in extreme conditions.
The Dark Biosphere challenges everything we thought we knew and challenges us to rethink not only the origin and evolution of life on Earth but its possible existence throughout the Universe.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
2:00 PM - Dark Biosphere
Deep beneath the earth's crust, hundreds of kilometres below the surface, with no light, no air, and very little water, in pores and fissures of hard rock, scientists have found an enormous biodiversity of micro-organisms that thrive in extreme conditions.
The Dark Biosphere challenges everything we thought we knew and challenges us to rethink not only the origin and evolution of life on Earth but its possible existence throughout the Universe.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Flandrau is closed on Mondays in order to provide you with better experiences during the week! See you Tuesday through Sunday from 10AM to 5PM.
2:00 PM - 5000 Eyes
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is creating the most detailed map of our nearby universe. Installed on the Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak in Southern Arizona, DESI's 5000 independently operated robots can measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. Join us as we explore the science, instrument, and people behind this global endeavor.
Recommended for general audiences.
Themes: astronomy, telescopes, James Webb
Style: Full-dome film followed by a short talk about the James Webb Space Telescope
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
The Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium will be closed today for the Thanksgiving holiday.
11:00 AM - We Are Stars
A fun, beautifully animated fulldome show about cosmic chemistry and our explosive origins—revealing how hydrogen and carbon formed in the universe and how we are, quite literally, made of stars!
Audience: Younger audiences
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
2:00 PM - Mysteries of the Unseen World
Mysteries of the Unseen World reveals the hidden wonders all around us—too fast, too slow, or too small for the naked eye. Stunning visuals and cutting-edge science uncover a mind-blowing world you’ve never seen before.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: IMAX film adapted for planetarium + live star talk
2:00 PM - Season of Light
Our annual family favorite “Season of Light” will fill you with seasonal sparkle! A holiday classic, now in fulldome format, this show explores the many festivals of light (including Christmas and Hanukah) that celebrate the spirit of renewal around the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Full of popular holiday music, you’ll learn the origins of today’s Christmas songs and customs. And you’ll discover how the dark days of winter have inspired luminous festival traditions in other times and cultures, and how all of those traditions connect back to astronomy. Noah Adams from National Public Radio narrates the show.
Recommended for general audiences
Themes: Holidays, stars, traditions
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
2:00 PM - Dark Biosphere
Deep beneath the earth's crust, hundreds of kilometres below the surface, with no light, no air, and very little water, in pores and fissures of hard rock, scientists have found an enormous biodiversity of micro-organisms that thrive in extreme conditions.
The Dark Biosphere challenges everything we thought we knew and challenges us to rethink not only the origin and evolution of life on Earth but its possible existence throughout the Universe.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
3:30 PM - Tucson Sky & Beyond
Sit back and relax for this popular live show as one of our Console Captains guides you through the night sky from a Tucson perspective, pointing out stars, planets, constellations, and current celestial events. Then, take a cosmic leap beyond our solar system to explore the universe’s distant wonders.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Buy $16 Discounted Tickets In Person
11:00 AM - Black Holes
Journey into the mysterious world of black holes in this visually stunning, immersive show. Featuring cosmic simulations and narrated by Liam Neeson, explore star birth and death, colliding galaxies, and a thrilling dive into our galaxy’s core.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Fulldome film + live star talk
12:30 PM - 3-2-1 Liftoff!
Alan is a hamster scientist who lives in a junkyard. He tries to fit in with the local community of rats, but nobody takes him seriously. One day, Alan hears a crash. In his garden, he finds a crater with a damaged robot inside. How did the robot get here? Alan fixes the robot and learns that he fell from a spaceship hovering above Earth. And the ship takes off tomorrow. Time is of the essence! That is the beginning of Alan's great adventure. Will he manage to get the robot back to his friends in time? 3-2-1 Liftoff! is an adventurous animated film about the courage and wit it takes to get to space and back.
Audience: General, 1st and up
Style: Fulldome film
2:00 PM - Season of Light
Our annual family favorite “Season of Light” will fill you with seasonal sparkle! A holiday classic, now in fulldome format, this show explores the many festivals of light (including Christmas and Hanukah) that celebrate the spirit of renewal around the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. Full of popular holiday music, you’ll learn the origins of today’s Christmas songs and customs. And you’ll discover how the dark days of winter have inspired luminous festival traditions in other times and cultures, and how all of those traditions connect back to astronomy. Noah Adams from National Public Radio narrates the show.
Recommended for general audiences
Themes: Holidays, stars, traditions
3:30 PM - Touring the Solar System
Take a guided journey through the Solar System and explore what makes each planet unique—from Jupiter’s giant storms to Saturn’s rings. We’ll also visit moons, asteroids, and the Milky Way on this cosmic adventure.
Audience: General, all ages
Style: Live star talk
Check back very soon for more showtimes!