Sesame Street: One World, One Sky
Sesame Street's One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure plays each Saturday at 10:00 am. The 20-minute planetarium show follows Sesame Street's Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet from Zhima Jie, the Chinese co-production of Sesame Street. Together, they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.
One World, One Sky is a brilliant spectacle of light and color as the furry friends watch the stars twinkle over Sesame Street.
Maunakea Skies Talk
Learn about the Hawaiian night sky at the monthly Maunakea Skies program where astronomers from Maunakea observatories speak about recent discoveries. These tours of the Universe will be in stereo 3D. General admission is $8. To reserve your seat, sign up at ‘Imiloa’s front desk or call (808) 969-9703. It will be the third Saturday of every month, at 7:00 p.m.
Maunakea Skies 2012
- January 21, Dr. Devost
- February 18, Dr. Shinnaga
- March 17, Joy Pollard and Peter Michaud Gemini
- April 21, Dr. Josh Walawender
- May 19
- June 16
- July 21
- August 17
- September 15
- October 20
- November 17
- December 15
August Maunakea Skies with Olivier Guyon
Topic: What makes a planet habitable ?
Thanks to new advances in technology, looking for life elsewhere in the Universe is becoming possible, and will keep astronomers very busy for decades to come. Great progress has been made recently (many exoplanets are now known), and new tricks to look for and characterize exoplanets are rapidly becoming available to us.
After a brief overview of recent discoveries and description of a few of the techniques planet hunters are using, we (the audience and myself) will discuss what it takes for a planet to be habitable.
Looking for an answer to this fascinating question requires us to understand what conditions make it possible for life to exist on Earth.
It will also guide our efforts to look for life on other planets by telling us where to look, and what we might be looking for.