Planetarium
noun
A place with a dome-shaped ceiling where you can see stars and planets as they look in the night sky.
The classroom visited the planetarium to learn about outer space.
Often appears as...
- visit a planetarium
- digital planetarium
noun
A device that projects an image of stars and planets on the ceiling.
He got a planetarium as a birthday gift, so he can observe the stars from his bedroom.
Often appears as...
- home planetarium
- planetarium projector
noun
A place with a dome-shaped ceiling where you can see stars and planets as they look in the night sky.
The classroom visited the planetarium to learn about outer space.
Often appears as...
- visit a planetarium
- digital planetarium
noun
A device that projects an image of stars and planets on the ceiling.
He got a planetarium as a birthday gift, so he can observe the stars from his bedroom.
Often appears as...
- home planetarium
- planetarium projector
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Pro Tip 1/3Educational Use
A planetarium is often used for education, especially for learning about astronomy and space.
Their school trip to the planetarium helped the students understand the solar system better.
Pro Tip 2/3Public Attraction
Planetariums are popular public attractions where people can simulate sky watching.
The city's planetarium offers public shows on weekend nights.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Experience
Visiting a planetarium can be a cultural experience, often featuring shows about myths and legends of the stars.
The planetarium show included stories about constellations from Greek mythology.
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What does the universe...
because of vision loss. And so they wondered if there was anything I could do. So I collected all the sounds I could think of from the universe and packaged them into what became "Our Musical Universe." This is a sound-based planetarium show exploring the rhythm and harmony of the cosmos.
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The moon illusion -...
On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead. Studies have shown, though,
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Frank Drake’s Cosmic...
they had the big demonstrations that they ran in the planetarium that where they could describe the constellations and things like that we did that by bicycle it was there that he started to imagine the possibility of life outside our planet
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How we experience time...
and it wasn't until I made this piece that I realized that I'd effectively made the interior of a planetarium, without even realizing that. And I remembered, as a child, loving going to the planetarium. And back then, the planetarium,
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Equinoxes PIPE National...
around the Sun astronomers like to describe the equinoxes within the conceptual celestial sphere here the heavens are projected around the earth like an enormous planetarium the model is bisected by the celestial equator a
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Bob Thurman: We can be...
he performed a kind of special effect which made it into a giant planetarium, the wonder of the universe. Everyone looked in that, and they saw in there the total interconnectedness of all life in all universes.
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Carter Emmart demos a 3D...
We have a growing user base of this, and we network domes. And we can network between domes and classrooms. We're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub-Saharan planetarium in Ghana as well as
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Inside Neil deGrasse...
holes edged in it those are constellations light comes through these holes gets projected in Reverse back out through this lens and goes on the Dome of the planetarium this is one of the lenses of the original
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A 3D atlas of the...
a growing user base of this when we network domes and we can network between domes and classrooms we're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub saharan planetarium in Ghana
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Here's What Earthquakes...
are how short our lifetimes are and hopefully they walk out of that planetarium with a very altered sense of their lives and our on earth
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What does the universe...
because of vision loss. And so they wondered if there was anything I could do. So I collected all the sounds I could think of from the universe and packaged them into what became "Our Musical Universe." This is a sound-based planetarium show exploring the rhythm and harmony of the cosmos.
Video examples
The moon illusion -...
On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead. Studies have shown, though,
Video examples
Frank Drake’s Cosmic...
they had the big demonstrations that they ran in the planetarium that where they could describe the constellations and things like that we did that by bicycle it was there that he started to imagine the possibility of life outside our planet
Video examples
How we experience time...
and it wasn't until I made this piece that I realized that I'd effectively made the interior of a planetarium, without even realizing that. And I remembered, as a child, loving going to the planetarium. And back then, the planetarium,
Video examples
Equinoxes PIPE National...
around the Sun astronomers like to describe the equinoxes within the conceptual celestial sphere here the heavens are projected around the earth like an enormous planetarium the model is bisected by the celestial equator a
Video examples
Bob Thurman: We can be...
he performed a kind of special effect which made it into a giant planetarium, the wonder of the universe. Everyone looked in that, and they saw in there the total interconnectedness of all life in all universes.
Video examples
Carter Emmart demos a 3D...
We have a growing user base of this, and we network domes. And we can network between domes and classrooms. We're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub-Saharan planetarium in Ghana as well as
Video examples
Inside Neil deGrasse...
holes edged in it those are constellations light comes through these holes gets projected in Reverse back out through this lens and goes on the Dome of the planetarium this is one of the lenses of the original
Video examples
A 3D atlas of the...
a growing user base of this when we network domes and we can network between domes and classrooms we're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub saharan planetarium in Ghana
Video examples
Here's What Earthquakes...
are how short our lifetimes are and hopefully they walk out of that planetarium with a very altered sense of their lives and our on earth
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Wesley Morris
American Critic
The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.
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Wesley Morris
American Critic
The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.
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