A highly acclaimed planetarium show by physicists has been seen by two million people worldwide

Our planetarium show about Dark Matter called: Phantom of the Universe has been seen worldwide by over two million people. It has been in more than 800 planetariums in 75 countries and in 27 languages. Production was done by an international collaboration, which went to planetariums in several countries to view the work in progress. The show covers dark matter from the Big Bang to galaxies to a deep underground experiment to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It was quite interesting to work for a day with Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton while recording the narration. Another two days was working on sound with an Academy Award-winning team at Skywalker Sound. Much of the show is in technical animation. Our target audiences were students and the public. For most planetariums, school visits account for about half their audiences. We found that many planetariums had a great interest in a dark matter show. They present our show for months at a time (unlike feature films). Planetariums have the perfect science-interested audience for us in the general public and K-12 students. We never imagined such success as we developed the show.