Delta Planetarium Celebrates 30th Anniversary of "The Pale Blue Dot."

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January 30, 2020

February, 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of the photograph “Pale Blue Dot.” Taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft before its cameras were finally powered off, Pale Blue Dot is the most distant image of Earth ever captured. On Friday, February 7 at 7pm the Delta College Planetarium will commemorate the event with the special live in-house production “The Pale Blue Dot.”

Produced and presented by Planetarium Show Specialist Brian Kennedy, the program celebrates the accomplishment through fulldome immersive animation, footage and photography. The show will revisit the Voyager missions, the longest running program of discovery in NASA history. These missions revolutionized our understanding of the gas giant planets in the outer solar system. In addition, it will examine how with a single, simple photograph, championed by famed astronomer Carl Sagan, Voyager was able to powerfully redefine humanity’s place in the cosmos.

Tickets for “The Pale Blue Dot” are specially priced at $3 per seat and go on sale at the planetarium one hour before show time. For more information, go to the planetarium’s website at www.delta.edu/planet or call 989-667-2260. The Delta College Planetarium is located at 100 Center Avenue in downtown Bay City.