Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences

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Morrison Planetarium—a 75-foot dome within San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences—is one of the largest all-digital planetariums in the world, and one of the most accurate digital Universes ever created. From faraway galaxies to the workings of our own planet, Academy visitors experience the cosmos like never before.

Happy Holidays to you from all of us at Morrison Planetarium!
12/24/2025

Happy Holidays to you from all of us at Morrison Planetarium!

Chile is one of the best places on our planet to look at the stars. To that end, this week, the European Southern Observ...
12/19/2025

Chile is one of the best places on our planet to look at the stars. To that end, this week, the European Southern Observatory announced the groundbreaking of a new gamma-ray observatory in the Atacama desert (eso.org/public/news/eso2521) and we brought back “Big Astronomy,” our in-house production about the telescopes and astronomy research in the South American country. Playing daily at 4:30pm.
calacademy.org/events/planetarium-show/big-astronomy-20

As we mentioned in a previous post, our fearless leader Ryan Wyatt left the Academy earlier this fall. But he has yet to...
12/11/2025

As we mentioned in a previous post, our fearless leader Ryan Wyatt left the Academy earlier this fall. But he has yet to clean out his office as evidenced in this photo from today. Do you think he'll be able to pack it up in the 32 bankers boxes in the photo? Will he make his end of the year deadline? Stay tuned…

12/02/2025

Do you have tickets for the last Dean Lecture of 2025? If not, grab them asap! Next Monday, Stanford’s Phil Marshall will tell us everything about the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The Chilean telescope is acquiring so much astronomical data that scientists have had to rethink the way its shared.
morrisonpla.net/dean-lecture

While you wait, here’s last December’s lecture, featuring Keith Hawkins taking us on an exploration of the Milky Way—our cosmic home.

11/26/2025

Bart DePontieu and his colleagues from NASA and SETI are launching the MUSE mission to understand why the Sun's atmosphere is so hot, and how it affects us here on Earth.

An original video produced by the Morrison Planetarium and Visualization Studio.

Yesterday, we celebrated Morrison Planetarium and Visualization Studio Senior Director Ryan Wyatt’s tenure at the Academ...
11/21/2025

Yesterday, we celebrated Morrison Planetarium and Visualization Studio Senior Director Ryan Wyatt’s tenure at the Academy. Ryan is moving on to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he’ll serve as Vice President of Science Visualization and Public Engagement.

We’ll miss his leadership, creativity, and more—and he’ll continue to serve as director of the upcoming planetarium show, opening in the spring.

With his departure—and Assistant Director Bing Quock’s departure last year—this page will sunset at the end of the year.

Not to worry, though! You can follow the Academy’s page and other social media channels for updates on MPVS.

11/12/2025

Morrison Planetarium turned 73 over the weekend, so to celebrate we're remembering our history through this video that we put together for our 60th! Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

11/05/2025

A couple of weeks ago, we shared a “porpoise gone wrong” video where our artist fessed up to a mistake when trying to rig a harbor porpoise for our new show.
It looks like he learned from his mistakes. Progress!

Just in time for Halloween, a spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Parana...
10/31/2025

Just in time for Halloween, a spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) captured this large cloud of cosmic gas and dust, whose mesmerizing silhouette resembles a bat, thanks to its wide field of view. The RCW 94/95 nebulae are captured in this image, which combines both visible and infrared light.

10/28/2025

Do you have tickets for next Monday’s “Our Marvelous Magnetic Moon” lecture? SETI’s Dr. Megan Seritan will help us solve the mystery of where the Moon’s magnetic field went. More information is here:
morrisonpla.net/dean-lecture

While you wait, enjoy this lecture from last year about the Europa Clipper mission…

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