Dark Universe

The phenomenon known as red shift, in which light from objects moving away appears to be stretched out to longer, redder wavelengths
License the award-winning full dome show Dark Universe for your digital planetarium.

Narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dark Universe brings audiences to the cutting edge of cosmic exploration to reveal the breakthroughs that have led astronomers to confront two great cosmic mysteries: dark matter and dark energy.

In stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic scientific data—including a NASA probe’s breathtaking plunge into Jupiter’s atmosphere and novel visualizations of unobservable dark matter—Dark Universe celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the universe and to new frontiers for exploration.

Awards

  • Best Producer Choice at IPS-Macao International Fulldome Festival
  • Best Science Visualization at FullDome Festival in Jena, Germany
  • Best Immersive Cinema (Fulldome) at Jackson Hole Science Media Awards
The Galileo spacecraft is shown suspended in space over a cloudy sky
This scene depicts the 1995 NASA Galileo probe hurtling into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
© AMNH
Hundreds of black threads weave across a dark grey background like a spider's web
Visualize the distribution of dark matter in the universe.
© AMNH
The International Space Station is shown hovering above Earth
An instrument on board the ISS is being used to learn about dark matter.
© AMNH
The entire Milky Way is shown up-close at a side angle forming a purple-blue oval comprised of clouds and stars
This high-resolution numerical model of the Milky Way includes both stars and gas and is constrained to agree with actual observations of the galaxy.
© AMNH
Image taken from inside an observatory looking up at the stars
Mount Wilson Observatory in California is where Edwin Hubble first discovered the expansion of the galaxies that led astronomers to the Big Bang theory.
© AMNH
The Planck space telescope is shown in space next to a ribbon measuring heat waves
The European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope completed the most detailed all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the Big Bang that was emitted when the early universe was as hot as the surface of the Sun.
© AMNH

Reviews

“A trip that makes Hollywood's most vaunted special effects… look like a cartoon.”
–The New York Times

“Will blow your mind.”
–The Washington Post

“An exhilarating perspective of the universe as we know it, and, as we don’t know it.” 
–The International Science Times

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Dark Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (amnh.org) in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan.