Welcome to the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium

Lyman Spitzer Jr. Planetarium

Immerse Yourself

The only public planetarium in Vermont invites you to take a tour of the cosmos, get transported by extreme weather, or travel through time to the age of the dinosaurs. Choose from a selection of films and in-person presentations during your visit. Or reserve the planetarium for a private show!

Today’s Programs

  • SOLD OUT: Introduction to Wild Mushrooms (VTMS - open to the public): Ecology, Identification & Foraging Basics field session with Annabelle Langlois
    June 2210:00 am - 1:00 pm
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  • Live Astronomy Presenter - "Tonight's Sky"
    June 2211:30 am - 12:00 pm
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  • Butterfly Full-Dome Movie
    June 2212:30 pm - 1:00 pm
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  • Astronomy Full-Dome Movie - "Beyond the Sun"
    June 221:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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  • Live Astronomy Presenter - Solar System Tour
    June 222:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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  • Astronomy Full-Dome Movie - "One Sky"
    June 223:30 pm - 4:15 pm
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Weather Forecast

HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM EDT SUNDAY FOR: lower Champlain, lower Connecticut River, and St. Lawrence valleys.

Valley fog developing overnight. Some areas may become locally dense. Lows in the 60s, a few 70s.

Current Weather Information for June 22, 2025

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Tonight

Clouds clearing. Fog developing, becoming locally dense. 
60s to low 70s

Mix of sun and clouds.

Monday

Partly to mostly sunny. HOT and humid.
Upper 80s to mid 90s

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Tuesday

HOT and humid. Chance of scattered showers, or a stray thunderstorm.
90s

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Wednesday

Increasing chance of showers or thunderstorms. 
Upper 70s to mid 80s

Eye on the Night Sky

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Today:
Early risers tomorrow will find an even thinner Crescent Moon joining Venus, well to the left of the planetary beacon, but also just left of the returning collection of stars known as the Seven Sisters. They will be quite low at 3:45 AM, just as the first hints of dawn blush in the east, visible until 4 o’clock, or shortly after, when the stars fade in the brightening twilight.