Bays Mountain Park is pleased to announce its latest planetarium show – “Living Worlds” – an amazing look at how life makes Earth livable and how we might detect life on worlds beyond our solar system.
“Living Worlds” debuted May 1 and will continue showing as the main feature in the Planetarium Theater through August 30. The 25-minute program is being shown Tuesday through Friday at 4 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. through the end of May. Beginning in June, the program will be shown daily at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Produced by the California Academy of Sciences, “Living Worlds” invites you to journey through space and time to examine life as an essential quality of our home planet. Narrator Daveed Diggs takes you on an exploration of the co-evolution of life and our planet, revealing the ways in which life has transformed Earth’s surface and atmosphere over billions of years.
Along the way, you’ll see how light and color can help us spot a living world, even from great distances.
As we ponder what forms life might take in the Solar System and beyond, “Living Worlds” encourages us to consider how a deeper understanding of our own planet can aid in the search for life across the cosmos, and to reflect on ways we can partner with our living world to ensure our continued survival.
“One of the big questions in astronomy has been – Is there other life in the Universe?” said Planetarium Director Jason Dorfman. “In this program we see how scientists are figuring out different ways to detect possible life on these distant worlds by looking at the signatures of life on Earth.”
This 25-minute program will be followed by a brief tour of the current evening sky using our Zeiss ZKP-4 optical star projector.
The alternate planetarium feature showing Saturdays and Sunday at 2 p.m. through June 30 will be “Appalachian Skies.”
“Appalachian Skies” takes visitors on a majestic tour of the current evening sky using the Zeiss optical star projector. This live presentation is enhanced with additional content from our VELVET LED projectors for a wonderful, immersive experience.
Each presentation is guaranteed to be unique, due to the live nature of the program, and the natural progression of the changing night sky throughout the seasons. Learn what fascinating mythological constellations, from Ancient Greece and other cultures, will be easily visible. Find out what planets are easily seen as well. Visitors will take this knowledge home and be able to locate these celestial sights for themselves.
