Planetarium – Super Volcanoes

The William M Thomas Planetarium will offer a special Chevron-sponsored evening showing of “Supervolcanoes” on Thursday, March 5th, from 7:30 to 8:30 PM.
Show is 7:30pm – 8:30pm.

Doors will open at 7:00 PM and will be closed during
the program with no late admittance.

No food, drink, or gum/candy is allowed in the
planetarium. Children must be 5 years or older to attend,
Kids are ages 5-12, Seniors are ages 60 years+

Parking fees are waived on that night if parked in lot
next to the stadium off of Mt Vernon.

The one-hour show will begin with a short tour of the evening sky using the planetarium’s Goto Chronos star projector followed by the 24-minute all-dome presentation from Spitz Creative Media called “Supervolcanoes” using our Spitz SciDome projector. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Hobbit, Imitation Game), this show looks back at rare classes of eruptions that release many thousands of times more energy, lava, and ash than Mt St Helens did in 1980 or Mt Pinitubo did in 1991. These supervolcano eruptions affect the entire planet for decades to millennia. The program moves beyond Earth to explore the impact of giant volcanic eruptions around our solar system. Audiences will fly down to Neptune’s frigid moon Triton, and onto the ultimate volcanic world: Jupiter’s moon Io. On a visit to a legendary North American hot spot, Yellowstone National Park, the film asks: can a supervolcano erupt in our time?