MАI for SE CYC “Planetarium” named after Anna Kikina Russia, 2026 / 18.2 min. Director Elena Zeinalova
For thousands of years, people have looked at the stars and wondered whether there might be other worlds similar to our own. Today, we know that planets orbiting other stars are real. The Universe is home to scorching gas giants, planets with two suns, ocean worlds, and rocky super-Earths. But how have scientists managed to discover objects that cannot be observed directly?
The fulldome lecture “Exoplanets: Worlds Beyond the Sun” invites audiences on a journey from the earliest ideas of ancient philosophers to modern space telescopes that are discovering thousands of new worlds.
Viewers will learn how astronomers detect the subtle wobbling of stars, measure tiny changes in their brightness, and use indirect evidence to determine the size, mass, temperature, and even the possible composition of the atmospheres of distant planets. It is a story about the search for other worlds and humanity’s gradual progress toward answering one of the greatest questions of all: are we alone in the Universe?