Galaxy of Worlds

Galaxy of Worlds

We know of thousands of planets outside our solar system, and astronomers can now even identify planetary systems in the process of forming around their youthful parent stars. How do studying these other solar systems help us understand our own? And how common are the conditions to make other ‘Earths’? Explore a galaxy full of planets in this live fifteen-minute program hosted by our planetarium presenters in Hohfeld Hall.

Galaxy of Worlds runs March 11 - June 9, 2016

Check our daily calendar for show times.

In Hohfeld Hall. No passes necessary, all ages welcome.

Want more resources on planet formation, exoplanets, the history or our solar system and how we study all of this? Check out these links below:

• How did our Solar System form? Animated video
  • A breakdown of our solar system
• Studying Solar Systems:
  • Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
    • ALMA and planet formation
    • ALMA planet/ring studies
  • Observing in infrared an microwave light 
  • Hubble Space Telescope
    • How do planets form
    • Searching for exoplanets
    • Alien atmospheres 
    • Direct observation of Fomalhaut
    • Hubble Confirms Abundance of Protoplanetary Disks around Newborn Stars (1994)
  • ​James Webb Space Telescope
    • Assembly video 
    • How JWST will study young planets 
• Exoplanets
  • Current exoplanet count
  • How we find exoplanets (with animations)
• News releases
  • Biggest solar system yet found
  • How a planet's distance affects its formation

Want to see the small stuff of the Solar System on the big screen? Be sure to catch the Academy's newest fulldome show Incoming! starting March 11, 2016.