{"id":5513,"date":"2026-05-15T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/planetarium\/?page_id=5513"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:18:49","slug":"spark-the-universe-in-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/planetarium\/fulldome-movie-library\/spark-the-universe-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark: The Universe in Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spark: The Universe in Us Trailer | California Academy of Sciences\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECqxOYSKZZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Description:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where did the building blocks of life come from? The answer lies in the hearts of distant stars and incredibly powerful explosions such as supernovae, which help spread fundamental elements to galaxies far and wide where they can spark new life.<\/p>\n<p>Journey across space and time as we explore the remnants of stellar explosions, travel deep inside a giant star nearing the end of its life, witness the collision of stellar corpses, and experience the quiet demise of a star like the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Spark: The Universe in Us traces the movements of elements through our galaxy to understand how stars live, die, and seed the universe with the elements to build new generations of stars, planets, and life. From the oxygen we breathe to the iron in our blood, the silicon in Earth\u2019s mantle to the uranium that warms our planet\u2019s core and helps give our planet its protective magnetic field, we owe it all to the stars!<\/p>\n<p>Produced by the California Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Narrated by Diego Luna.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Runtime:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>26 minutes<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Suitable for:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>College, General Audiences, Grades 9-12<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Target Audience:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Grades 9-12<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"show-detail-title\">Covered Subject Areas: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Cosmology, Earth Science, Life Science &amp; Nature, Space Science &amp; Astronomy<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Plot Keywords:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Astronomy, Science, Earth Sciences<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Fulldome Database (FDDB) Entry:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fddb.org\/shows\/spark-the-universe-in-us\">https:\/\/fddb.org\/shows\/spark-the-universe-in-us<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The California Academy of Sciences:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/exhibits\/spark-the-universe-in-us\">https:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/exhibits\/spark-the-universe-in-us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Where did the building blocks of life come from? 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