The 110, 000-square-foot Science Center of Iowa, completed in 2004, houses a walk-through planetarium.
The Bangkok Post quotes an official at the Bangkok Planetarium, who suggests it could have been a burning balloon.
Stargazers have a fancier forum now that the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science has been renovated.
The renowned oxidised copper plate dome was created by Madame Tussauds, originally to house its London Planetarium show.
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The Planetarium also projects amazing 3D films on the 1, 000sqm dome-shaped screen, including voyages to the planets and creatures of the deep seas.
Old-fashioned planetarium projectors used a metal sphere, pierced with thousands of holes and illuminated from within, to mimic the starry sky.
When everybody is back with their kids in tow, maybe we'll make a day of the Cranbrook Institute of Science's planetarium.
He has already spent a fortune building a planetarium, a cable car and a viewing tower, which looks out over nothing in particular.
On February 26, Babycastles, along with open-source software developer Ivan Safrin, is turning the roof of the Planetarium into a live video game, called Space Cruiser.
The best view is to be had at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, part of the new Rose Centre for Earth and Space, which opened in February.
So the native South African took the insects (Scarabaeus satyrus) into the Johannesburg planetarium where she could control the type of star fields a beetle might see overhead.
After all, this is the same company that enjoyed a triumph three years ago with another "site-specific" staging, performing Haydn's comic opera "Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon)" at the Hayden Planetarium.
In continued collaboration with the social media platform, NASA is now providing a Curiosity Explorer badge to anyone who checks in to a NASA visitor center or a venue categorized as a science museum or planetarium.
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The beetles performed best when confronted with a perfect starry sky projected on to the planetarium dome, but coped just as well when shown only the diffuse bar of light that is the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.
Mr. Scott and his collaborators most notably the production designer, Arthur Max, and the cinematographer, Dariusz Wolski have created data-rich interiors with 3-D displays, shimmering holograms and, in one magical scene, a sort of planetarium of the cosmos that springs up unbidden, with a little Earth drifting around the perimeter.
Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.
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