The Pantagraph - 33 minutes ago CHICAGO -- The Adler Planetarium is home to the Star of Wonder sky show, one of Chicago's most endearing and popular Christmas events. | Festival calendar The museum's longest running sky show, Star of Wonder examines theories about what celestial event may have led three kings to follow a star to the town of Bethlehem to visit a newborn child about 2,000 years ago. The show asks if the light in the sky that appeared to guide their travels could have been an exploding star, or a visiting comet or something else. The show, which continues through Jan. 4, presents a surprising conclusion based on ancient astronomical records and modern computer calculations. Daily show times are 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. For the younger audience, the planetarium offers One World, One Sky: Big Bird's Adventure, based on the children's show Sesame Street and featuring Big Bird, Elmo and their friend from China, Hu Hu Zhu. Learn about the Big Dipper, the North Star, the sun and the moon. Daily show times are 1 and 3:15 p.m. weekdays. On weekends, times are 10:30 a.m. (in Spanish on Saturday and Mandarin on Sunday), 12:45 and 3 p.m. The Sky Theater also features Night Sky Live!, a look at the diversity of the nighttime sky while TimeSpace turns Adler's Definiti Space Theater into a time machine to take audiences back 14 billion years to see the Big Bang. Moving forward, the show explains the demise of the dinosaurs, the first appearance of Halley's Comet and Apollo 11's moon landing. Then, you are transport ahead to the year 3,001. Fly Me to the Moon is a 3-D Space Show about three flies that stowaway on Apollo 11. Exhibits at Adler include the History of Astronomy: Navigation that details how sailors developed instruments to find their way across the sea and Nergy the Solar Car, built by students at Northwestern University to compete in the 2001 Solar Challenge. Solar cells generated enough power to move the car at a speed of 25 mph over 10 days and 2,300 miles. Other exhibits include the Milky Way Galaxy, Our Solar System and Shoot for the Moon that includes the restored Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut Jim Lovell flew. Adler Planetarium is located at 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, and is part of the museum campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and The Field Museum. Adler alone draws a half million visitors a year. Times are 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily with the exception of the first Friday of every month when times are 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Cost is $16 for adults (one show and audio tour), or $20 (two shows and audio tour). Seniors age 65 and older save $1; $14 for children ages 4-17 (one show and audio tour), or $18 (two shows). http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/01/25/go/doc4942abfe8e830140092362.txt --

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