Waiting Far Away

Fri · Oct 2·2 PM – 3 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

10 minutes All ages An explorer of the cosmos has traveled too far…and can’t find home. Become lost on a journey through the majestic, humbling, and solitary beauty of space and time reimagined. Charles Hayden Planetarium

Sun · Oct 4·2 PM – 3 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

10 minutes All ages An explorer of the cosmos has traveled too far…and can’t find home. Become lost on a journey through the majestic, humbling, and solitary beauty of space and time reimagined. Charles Hayden Planetarium

Fri · Oct 9·2 PM – 3 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

10 minutes All ages An explorer of the cosmos has traveled too far…and can’t find home. Become lost on a journey through the majestic, humbling, and solitary beauty of space and time reimagined. Charles Hayden Planetarium

Sun · Oct 11·2 PM – 3 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

10 minutes All ages An explorer of the cosmos has traveled too far…and can’t find home. Become lost on a journey through the majestic, humbling, and solitary beauty of space and time reimagined. Charles Hayden Planetarium

Fri · Oct 16·2 PM – 3 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

Phantom of the Universe: The Hunt For Dark Matter 25 minutes Ages 8 and up An exciting exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. The show will reveal the first hints of its existence through the eyes of Fritz Zwicky, the scientist who coined the term “dark…

Fri · Oct 16·10 AM – 4 PM·Children's Fairyland · Oakland

Fri · Oct 16·10:30 AM · 3 PM·Children's Fairyland · Oakland

Playing at the Emerald City stage Showtimes: 10:30 a.m.

Fri · Oct 16·11 AM – 12 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

35 minutes Ages 8 and up Astronomy discoveries and art often go hand in hand. See through the eyes of pioneers in space exploration: astronomers who’ve dared to draw what they saw. We’ll take a look at how art inspires future scientific discovery, and how scientific discovery inspires art. With an expert guide and cutt…

Sat · Oct 17·11 AM – 12 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

35 minutes Ages 8 and up It’s been called a river in the sky, a tree of life, a celestial spine, and even a spray of mother’s milk, but since Galileo made the telescopic discovery that is made up of countless hosts of stars and mysterious, dark, brooding clouds, we have come to know The Milky Way as our galactic home a…

Sat · Oct 17·12 PM – 1 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

(15 min) Worlds of Curiosity dives into the questions of “What it would be like to live on an Earth with no Moon?” or “What if the Earth was tilted on its side, like the planet Uranus?”

Wed · Oct 21·7 PM – 8:30 PM·Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA

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Fri · Sep 25·3 PM – 4 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

C360: When Things Collide 31 minutes Ages 8 and up Movies, mythology, and popular culture paint many pictures of the ways that our world might end. How does science shed light on world-ending planetary disruptions past and future? We’ll fly to celestial sites of devastation and disaster, exploring how these events shap…

Sat · Sep 26·12 PM – 1 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

12 minutes, all ages. Telescopes built to detect electromagnetic waves, like visible light, infrared, radio waves, and other forms, give us the ability to see objects and events at great distances in the universe, and far back in time. Today, a new type of instrument, the “gravity wave telescope”, is giving us the powe…

Sat · Sep 26·1 PM – 2 PM·Chabot Space & Science Center · Oakland

26 minutes Ages 8 and up Big Astronomy explores three observatories located in Chile, at extreme and remote places. It gives examples of the multitude of STEM careers needed to keep the great observatories working. The show is narrated by Barbara Rojas-Ayala, a Chilean astronomer. California Academy of Sciences