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The National Space Centre is giving families the chance to enjoy a film night with a difference.

The Leicester attraction will be streaming a planetarium show online for the first time ever, on Friday, April 24 - and you can watch for free.

We Are Stars will be available to view from 6pm, and will enable families, adults and children to explore the secrets of our cosmic chemistry, and our explosive origins.

Developed by NSC Creative, a team of animators based at the National Space Centre, We Are Stars has played in planetaria around the world.

However, this is the first time the show has been able to be seen outside the full dome and enjoyed, in full, in the home.

We Are Stars is narrated by Andy Serkis, who is known as the voice of Gollum in The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit films. In We Are Stars, he provides the voice of the Time Master - a Victorian gent with his very own time tent that will whisk audiences back in time 13.8 billion years.

Malika Andress, head of marketing at the National Space Centre, said: “We are delighted that our NSC Creative team have worked with us to bring this family movie night to our amazing online audiences. The current situation is really difficult for families and isolated people, so we hope that this show can allow science and imagination to provide a brief respite for everybody.”

The screening is free and will be launched on the National Space Centre's Facebook and YouTube channels at 6pm on Friday, April 24.

In the next couple of days, the team will also be sharing popcorn recipes, craft resources and even a watch-along quiz, complete with prizes to be won.