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Upcoming Events

Bill Nye's Climate Lab
Dash to the Lab!
Comet ISON
Coming This Fall - If It Survives!
We Are Aliens
Ask Jeeves Planetarium
Full Moon Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Mini Martians Day
Be a Space Alien!
Tyke Explorers
Hey! What's in that Tree?

We Are Aliens
Ask Jeeves Planetarium
Fast & Curious
Live Planetarium Show
Astronaut
Ask Jeeves Planetarium
Tales of the Maya Skies
Ask Jeeves Planetarium
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket
Ask Jeeves Planetarium

Comet ISON
Coming This Fall - If It Survives!
Full Moon Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Mini Martians Day
Be a Space Alien!
Tyke Explorers
Hey! What's in that Tree?
Snuggle Up & Marvel at the Night Sky
Date Nights
Stacking the Space Shuttle
Space Talks
Star Stories
Marvel at the Night Sky
Let's Talk About Space, Baby!
Date Nights
A Monkey on Your Back!
Space Talks
Star Stories
Marvel at the Night Sky
First Glance
Member Telescope Viewing
Tyke Explorers
Not-So-Spooky Science
Night Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Slumber with the Stars
A Group Overnight!
Future Fridays
John & Brenda Brathwaite Romero
Full Moon Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Saturn V Countdown
Space Talks
Member Movie Night
Hotel Transylvania
Sinful Science
Explore Indulgence
Mystery Science Halloween
Solve the Clues!
To the Moon
Space Talks
Family Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Future Fridays
Robert Weiss
Night Hike
Enjoy the Redwoods by Moonlight!
Hike With Your Honey & Explore the Stars
Date Nights
The Dusty Dozen
Space Talks
Tantalizing Telescopes
Date Nights
Balloon Drop
Ring in the New Year!

Bill Nye's Climate Lab
Dash to the Lab!
Beyond Blastoff
Spees Building
Destination Universe
Spees Building
One Giant Leap: A Moon Odyssey
Skybridge
Tales of the Maya Skies
Upper Level Rotunda
Touch the Sun
Experience Our Nearest Star!
A View to the Stars
Observatory Deck

Did you know

Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
Earth's atmosphere is thinner compared to Earth than an apple skin to an apple.
Ten percent of all human beings ever born are alive right now.
About a hundred lighting bolts strike the Earth every second of the day.