BGSU Planetarium

10/19/2026

Get in the Halloween spirit with the entertaining show, SPOOKY SPACE! We can imagine seeing things such as ghosts, faces, witches and vampires in our pictures of objects in space. See these along with other spooky phenomena in space and learn about the science behind them.

Thursday, Oct. 22 & 29 at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

Public stargazing will follow evening shows, weather permitting.

10/14/2026

Join us this Thursday, Oct. 15 at 6:30 p.m. or Sunday, Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. for COSMIC RECIPE: SETTING THE PERIODIC TABLE.

“To make apple pie, you must first make the Universe.” Learn how the Universe made all its elements, those in the periodic table and in apple pie: from the Big Bang to the hot hearts of stars and the colossal explosions of supernovae.

10/06/2026

Even though we just started DARK SIDE OF LIGHT last Thursday, there are only two more chances to see the show! Join us this Thursday at 6:30 p.m or Sunday at 7:30 p.m. to see it.

Life on the surface of the Earth, including Humans, have adapted to the natural cycle of day and night. But with artificial lights we now interrupt that cycle. In DARK SIDE OF LIGHT learn how this light pollution affects our ability to observe the night sky and how it impact us as well as nature as a whole.

This program will be paired with a compilation of beautiful astrophotography images taken by photographers from around the world.

10/04/2026

09/28/2026

This Thursday, Oct. 1 at 6:30 p.m. join us for DARK SIDE OF LIGHT.

Life on the surface of the Earth, including Humans, have adapted to the natural cycle of day and night. But with artificial lights we now interrupt that cycle. How does this light pollution affect our ability to observe the night sky and how does it impact us as well as nature as a whole?

This program will be paired with a compilation of beautiful astrophotography images taken by photographers from around the world.

DARK SIDE OF LIGHT will also be shown on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

09/26/2026

There is only one more chance this year to see ANIMALS OF THE SKY and 5000 EYES: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE WITH DESI. Join us this Sunday, Sept. 26, at 4:30 p.m. for ANIMALS OF THE SKY and at 7:30 p.m. for 5000 EYES.

Many of the sky’s constellations are animals, such as the great bear Ursa Major, Leo the Lion, Pegasus the winged horse, Scorpius the Scorpion, and more. In this delightful show, follow along as a young girl, Delphina, unexpectedly finds herself encountering and getting to know these ANIMALS OF THE SKY.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is installed on a 4-m telescope located on Kitt Peak in Arizona, uses 5000 independently operated robots to measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. By observing galaxies across the sky DESI has been able to create the most detailed map of the nearby universe to date, revealing its largest structures as never seen before.

09/23/2026

There are just two more chances to see 5000 EYES: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE WITH DESI, tomorrow (Sept. 24) at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday (Sept. 27) at 7:30 p.m! Learn how DESI has created the most detailed map of the nearby universe to date, revealing its largest structures as never seen before.

09/20/2026

We continue ANIMALS OF THE SKY and 5000 EYES: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE WITH DESI through Sept. 27 PLUS this coming Friday and Saturday, we will have four special showings of UNVEILING THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE for .

These will be on Friday, Sept. 25 at 3pm and 4pm and on Saturday, Sept. 26 at noon and 1pm.

For thousands of years humans observed light from the night sky with their eyes. In the beginning of the 17th century the use of the telescope by Galileo revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. Then, in the 20th century, rockets made it possible to go above the atmosphere and make observations of x-ray and gamma ray radiation. Now observations can be made not only of light, but also of neutrinos, cosmic rays, and even gravitational waves – providing new windows into the universe and phenomenon such as the mergers of neutron stars and black holes. UNVEILING THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE presents images of the cosmos revealed by all these different messengers.

09/12/2026

This Sunday at the Planetarium we will be showing ANIMALS OF THE SKY at 4:30 p.m. and 5000 EYES: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE WITH DESI at 7:30 p.m.

09/08/2026

Join us this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. for 5000 EYES: MAPPING THE UNIVERSE WITH DESI. In this show new to , you'll learn about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which is installed on a 4-m telescope located on Kitt Peak in Arizona. The instrument uses 5000 independently operated robots to measure the light from thousands of galaxies at once. By observing galaxies across the sky DESI has been able to create the most detailed map of the nearby universe to date, revealing its largest structures as never seen before.

5000 Eyes will also be presented on Sunday, Sept. 13, 20, & 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 24 at 6:30 p.m.