Planetarium – Supervolcanoes

Tickets available at all Vallitix locations including the Fox Theater Box Office, Charge by phone 661-322-5200 and Vallitix.com

Doors will open 30 minutes before the show starts for seating and will be closed during the one-hour program with no late admittance. Tickets are available for $8/adults and $6/seniors and children 5-12 years old. (tickets will NOT be sold at the door) starting January 21st. The BC Ticket Office is in Business Services (395-4326) and the William M Thomas Planetarium is on the second floor, northwest end of the Math-Science Building, Room 112. The map below shows you where the ticket office and the planetarium are. No food, drink, or gum/candy is allowed in the planetarium. Children must be 5 years or older.

SUPERVOLCANOES
Thanks to a generous increase in Chevron’s annual support of the STEM program at Bakersfield College, the William M Thomas Planetarium will offer a special Chevron-sponsored evening showing of “Supervolcanoes” on Thursday, November 5th, from 7:30 to 8:30 PM.

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?