Color image of the Sun from the SCSM observatory, with multiple sunspots and prominences
Close up image of four people shown from a back/side profile as they look up to watch a projection of the Milky Way in a planetarium dome
Planetarium

The 55-foot digital dome BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Planetarium takes guests on journeys to the deepest reaches of space and beyond.

Museum Hours

Open today from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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Solar Superstorms

Now Showing

A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these strange phenomena? How will they affect planet Earth? Find the answers as we venture into the seething interior of our star.

Solar Superstorms is a major new production that takes viewers into the tangle of magnetic fields and superhot plasma that vent the Sun’s rage in dramatic flares, violent solar tornadoes, and the largest eruptions in the Solar System: coronal mass ejections.

The show features one of the most intensive efforts ever made to visualize the Sun’s inner workings, including a series of groundbreaking scientific visualizations computed on the giant supercomputing initiative, Blue Waters, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois.

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Showtimes are valid through the end of the current month.

A co-production of Spitz Creative Media, NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, and Thomas Lucas Productions, in association with Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado (Boulder).

This project has been made possible with support from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Film Office; funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

Dates
Additional Ticket Required
Included with Admission
Suitable for All Ages
Wheelchair Accessible
Show Times
Tuesday
11:30 am
Wednesday
11:30 am
Thursday
11:30 am
Friday
11:30 am
Saturday
11:30 am

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