P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium
Penn-Harris-Madison Schools Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum (Tickets are non-refundable unless show cancellation is due to a P-H-M closure) No admittance 10 minutes post show start.
Laser Holidays 2
Between Sunday December 7 2025 and Thursday December 11 2025
This is another professional laser light show, which contains 12 holiday songs, including Up on the Housetop and All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, and accompanying laser animations. The planetarium will be decked out as a winter wonderland, so come enjoy the music, laser lights, and beautiful winter wonderland as well!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Laser Holidays 1
Between Thursday December 4 2025 and Sunday December 7 2025
This is a professional laser light show, containing 12 holiday songs, including Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Silent Night, Frosty The Snowman, and accompanying laser animations. The planetarium will be decked out as a winter wonderland, so come enjoy the music, laser lights, and beautiful winter wonderland as well!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Season of Light
Wednesday December 3 2025
This show traces the development of many of the world's endearing holiday customs, and how they involve lighting up the winter season-from the burning of the Yule log and sparkling Christmas tree lights to the lighting of the Menorah and luminarias. In addition, we will be detectives trying to solve the mystery of the Star Over Bethlehem. The planetarium will be decked out as a winter wonderland, so come enjoy the beautiful winter wonderland as well!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Winter Night Sky & Legends of the Night Sky: Orion
Wednesday November 12 2025
Would you like to know an easy way to find and identify winter constellations?
Join us for a live presentation and overview of the current winter night sky, which includes constellations, stars, colors of stars, the Milky Way, planets, and more!
Legends of the Night Sky: Orion brings the mythological Orion to life in a fun-filled, animated adventure. Accompanied by narrators Aesop, the owl, and Socrates, the mouse, we follow Orion’s adventures as he grows to manhood, battles mythical beasts, foils the plot of an evil king, and wins the heart of Artemis, the beautiful moon goddess. By the end of the story, we learn how the constellation Orion was placed in the sky, forever turning overhead throughout the seasons.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
D-Day: Normandy 1944
Tuesday November 11 2025
This show is free to all veterans. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Audiences of all ages, including new generations, will discover from a new perspective how this landing changed the world. Exploring history, military strategy, science, technology, and human values, this will educate and appeal to all.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
“Trip Through Space, Two Small Pieces of Glass” & Telescopes
Wednesday November 5 2025
This full-dome show is a potpourri of Astronomy topics such as: moon phases, eclipses, tides, lunar surface features, the Solar System, eight winter constellations and their bright stars, the Earth’s motions and seasons, star types, galaxies, formation of stars, and the size of the Universe in general.
The second show tells how Galileo’s telescopic observations began a revolution, transforming our view of the cosmos and our place within.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Imagine the Moon & Telescope Observations!
Tuesday November 4 2025
Imagine the Moon explores how the Moon has inspired human creativity, learning, and exploration ever since we looked to the sky. Through beautiful imagery and historical footage, we explore our closest celestial neighbor! The power of human imagination continues to inspire our relationship with the Moon as our partner in space and companion in our sky. Weather permitting, we will have telescope observations after the show!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Laser Fright Light 2
Wednesday October 29 2025
Get into the spooky spirit with another special Halloween Laser Show! This must-see evening laser show combines haunting tunes and an amazing laser light show that dances across the DVT’s 30-foot dome. The water-vapor-based haze machine makes the laser lights stretch across the room!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Laser Fright Light 1
Tuesday October 28 2025
Get into the spooky spirit with this special Halloween Laser Show! This must-see evening laser show combines haunting tunes and an amazing laser light show that dances across the DVT’s 30-foot dome. The water-vapor-based haze machine makes the laser lights stretch across the room!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Tales of a Time Traveler
Wednesday October 22 2025
The flow of time is not as simple as you might think. Seconds ticking by on a clock isn’t even close to the complete depth of time. Tonight, we will go on a journey with a time traveler and become time travelers ourselves to understand the complicated workings of time. How does time pass differently on top of a building versus on the ground? What about around a black hole? Is time travel possible?
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Experience the Aurora
Tuesday October 21 2025
Come see colorful dancing curtains and vibrant ribbons of color in skies around the world! Over the course of seven months in the Arctic Circle, crews captured time-lapse images of the Aurora Borealis using high-resolution digital SLR cameras equipped with fisheye lenses. The results are spectacular. For the first time, the aurora has been captured as it was meant to be experienced, as a display that covers the entire sky. This immersive show shares the science behind the aurora and tells the story of our quest to find and photograph the aurora for wraparound display in full-dome theatres. Winner of 2 Telly Awards
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Forces of Nature
Wednesday October 15 2025
Come close to nature's most powerful and extreme forces. Cameras capture massive volcanoes, earthquakes, and storms as a team of scientists travel the world in an attempt to figure out what causes these dangerous, yet undeniably thrilling natural occurrences. Putting their lives on the line in the name of scientific discovery, the experts forge their way into erupting pits, through volcanic flows, along fault lines, and straight towards tornados' eyes. Narrated by Kevin Bacon.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Stars of the Pharaohs
Tuesday October 14 2025
Travel through time to Ancient Egypt to see how the Egyptians studied the stars and learn about their advanced scientific methods. Learn how they told time, made a calendar, created massive structures, and the connection they had with the stars above.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Into the Deep
Wednesday October 8 2025
We know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the wonders hidden beneath the waves of our planet's seas. Remarkable creatures, all perfectly adapted to the extreme pressures and temperatures of their alien environment, inhabit a realm of underwater volcanoes, engulfed mountain ranges, and vast trenches cut into the crust of the planet. Audiences will experience the dive of Trieste to the Challenger Deep, the lowest point of the Mariana Trench in the South Pacific.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Edge of Darkness & Ice Worlds
Tuesday October 7 2025
Edge of Darkness features amazing culminated from ground-breaking discoveries in 2015. Featuring a spectacular flight through the great cliffs on comet 67P, fascinating bright "lights" on Ceres, and the first-ever close-ups of the dwarf binary planet Pluto/Charon and its moons. Narrated by Hayley Atwell, Agent Carter, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the ABC television series. In Ice Worlds, we will explore the delicate balance between ice, water, and the existence of life, which has been a topic of scientific inquiry for generations. In travels to the Arctic and Antarctic regions of our planet, we'll examine the ecosystems that exist and thrive there and learn how their survival is connected with our own. Beyond Earth, we'll see how the existence of ice shapes the landscapes and natural systems on other planets and moon in our Solar System.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
SpacePark 360
Wednesday October 1 2025
SpacePark360 takes the audience through 9 amusement park-like rides in the Solar System. From the tops of Jupiter's clouds to the icy depths of Neptune's moon Triton, each location will bring a thrilling experience!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Mars 1001
Tuesday September 30 2025
Join the crew of Iris 1 on a daring 1001-day mission to fly an international crew to Mars and return them safely to Earth. This mission is an extraordinary engineering feat loaded with scientific experiments. The explorers will expand our knowledge of Mars, and we will learn if mankind has a future among the stars. Experience the thrill of the grandest mission of human exploration ever undertaken!
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Birth of Planet Earth & Dynamic Earth
Wednesday September 24 2025
The formation of the solar system was an extremely violent event. One must wonder: “How did the Earth become such a calm paradise in the midst of chaos?” In this show, we will study the formation of other solar systems that scientists have witnessed to learn more about our own. We will also discuss the possibility of other Earth-like worlds in outer space.
The award-winning Dynamic Earth explores the inner workings of Earth’s great life support system: the global climate. With visualizations based on satellite monitoring data and advanced supercomputer simulations, this cutting-edge production follows a trail of energy that flows from the Sun into the interlocking systems that shape our climate: the atmosphere, oceans, and the biosphere. Audiences will ride along on swirling ocean and wind currents, dive into the heart of a monster hurricane, come face-to-face with sharks and gigantic whales, and fly into roiling volcanoes.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Fall Night Sky & Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus/Andromeda
Tuesday September 23 2025
Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus/Andromeda engages the audience with a wonderful story filled with humorous and exciting characters, and also engages their desire to learn about astronomy. This educational, and entertaining laser show is for adults as well as children. Aesop the owl and Socrates the mouse tell how Perseus saves Andromeda from Cetus the Sea Monster.
Also, join us for an overview of the current night sky, which includes constellations, stars, the Milky Way, and the planets.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Oasis in Space
Wednesday September 17 2025
Embark on a startling and beautiful voyage through our Universe, Galaxy, and Solar System in search of water, the key ingredient for life on Earth. With newly updated data and visuals, Oasis in Space offers a new perspective on a substance of obvious importance to our planet.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
Seven Wonders of the Universe
Tuesday September 16 2025
Turn back the pages of time and witness the ancient wonders of the world as they appeared thousands of years ago. Explore the Great Pyramid, stand in the shadow of the towering Colossus, and experience the rest of the world's Seven Wonders. We will investigate the theories of how these wonders were created and get a glimpse of some of the universe's greatest wonders.
P-H-M Arthur M. Klinger Planetarium, Air & Space Museum
