The Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium’s Fall 2025 Show Season is set to take you on adventures around the world and across the universe. Soar over the Alaskan arctic wilderness, swim with whales around Australia, or fly with some endangered birds on a journey across the Swiss Alps. If space is your place, the planetarium will be zooming toward black holes and out to the edges of our visible universe.
Tickets are now on sale for Fall 2025 shows at the Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium, located on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott Campus, in STEM Building 76, at 3700 Willow Creek Road.
The planetarium’s online ticketing system allows audiences to select their seats in advance for upcoming shows. All shows are open to the public and held most Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons.
For details or to reserve your tickets today, visit https://prescott.erau.edu/planetarium.
Choose your own adventure, because we’ve got a little something for everyone! Showtimes and dates for the Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium Fall 2025 Show Season include:
Friday, Sept. 5: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 6: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 14: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 15: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Whale Super Highway follows humpback whales and blue pygmy whales on their 4,000-mile migration down the coast of Western Australia to the freezing waters of Antarctica and back again. This immersive program offers a stunning look into life in the waters of Western Australia. It reveals fascinating information about whales — while underscoring how much we still have to discover.
Friday, Sept. 12: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 13: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
This show is all about size and distance when it comes to the universe. Starting on Earth, we fly farther and farther from home, encountering incredible structures that populate the cosmos—traveling all the way to the edge of what we can visibly observe in the universe.
Jane Goodall: Reasons for Hope
Friday, Sept. 19: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 20: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.
This movie is an uplifting journey around the globe, highlighting good news stories that inspire people to make a difference in the world.
From the Northern Bald Ibis’ migration over the Alps, to the Blackfeet Nation’s reintroduction of the American Bison, to the globally recognized Sudbury Regreening Project. These efforts, along with youth-led initiatives from Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program, are interwoven with historic footage of Jane’s beginnings as a chimpanzee worker.
Saturday, Sept. 20: 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 1: 11 a.m.
Saturday, Nov. 22: 11 a.m.
The night sky can be a source of wonder, spark curiosity, inspire silly adventures, and connect us to our ancestors across space and time. Join us while we read some fun, wacky, and even poignant children’s books that take place on other planets and vistas across the universe in the future, the past, and in the imagination.
Beyond Our Solar System: Exploring Alien Worlds
Friday, Sept. 26: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 27: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Over the past few decades, we have started to discover planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. What are these extra solar worlds and how do we plan to explore them?
Saturday, Oct. 4: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 21: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 22: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Imagine a place in America that is vast, wild and untouched, where some of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles unfold. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located in the northeastern corner of Alaska, is one of the wildest places left on the planet — a symbol of wilderness that few have ever seen.
Friday, Oct. 17: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 18: 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Interested in getting to know your night sky? Join Suzy Gurton for this live planetarium program, which shows what constellations, planets, meteor showers and more will be coming to the Prescott skies for your viewing pleasure. The content for this program changes every month it is shown. Telescope viewing will be available after the Friday evening shows, weather permitting.
Friday, Oct. 31: 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 1: 2 p.m., 3 p.m., and 4 p.m.
From the collapsed cores of massive stars to dark, unfathomable behemoths lurking at the centers of galaxies, we will explore the wealth of knowledge scientists have gathered about black holes across the universe. With the help of tools like the Event Horizon Telescope, we now know more about these mysterious objects than ever before, but how much can we truly discover about something that is so very good at offering only one-way trips within its depths?
The Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium is the only Arizona planetarium north of Phoenix, capable of seating 116 students and visitors. The facility also contains multimedia learning software that can take viewers from the inner complexities of the human body to the farthest reaches of the known universe.
In addition to being an invaluable resource for the Embry-Riddle community, the Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium hosts events and programming open to the greater Prescott and Quad-City public year-round.
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