Friday Starry Nights

Friday Starry Nights at Roper Mountain Science Center
June 17 and 24, 2022
4:30, 6, or 7:30 p.m.

4:30PM OR 6:00PM FEATURE SHOW: MAGIC TREE HOUSE: SPACE MISSION

•  4:30 or 6:00pm
•  Hooper Planetarium

Travel with Jack and Annie, stars of the Magic Tree House® best-selling children’s book series, as they search for answers to a mysterious riddle they discover in a written note signed “–M.”

Viewers peek into the treehouse and follow Jack and Annie on an exciting adventure as they meet a helpful astronomer and an astronaut. As they travel to an observatory and beyond into space, Jack and Annie nearly get … well, we don’t want to give the surprise away!

Recommended for age 4 and above.

7:30PM FEATURE SHOW: TALES OF THE MAYA SKIES

•  7:30pm
•  Hooper Planetarium

Tales of the Maya Skies immerses viewers in the wonders of Maya science, cosmology and myth, as you are taken back in time to the jungles of Mexico and to the cities and temples of the ancient Maya.

The beautifully illustrated story reveals how the Maya scholars developed a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, architecture, and mathematics that enabled them to predict solstices, solar eclipses, weather patterns and planetary movements, and through this knowledge make sense of the world around them.

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