COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Teaching modern astronomy with planetarium equipment that was built before astronauts landed on the moon is a tricky venture. And it’s a task that has troubled Ohio State ...

The night after Christmas, Santa was out of Juneau for the evening — way out. “What do astronauts and Santa have in common?” volunteer Cristina Della Rosa asked the 50 of people inside Marie Drake ...

No one could accuse the Zeiss of being a rebel, but it's rubbed shoulders with the best of them. Make that the very best, because the rebel that once shared space with the projector didn't have a ...

FAST FACTS• The Smith Planetarium has 92 seats donated by a planetarium in Nashville.• The 40-foot-diameter dome was donated by a planetarium in Jacksonville, Fla.• The dome hangs by chains from the ...

It’s been nearly two years since the Spokane Falls Community College planetarium temporarily closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over that span, NASA launched and landed both the rover ...

Each year, Glendale Junior Senior High School students conduct a community or school-oriented project for a chance to win the ...

Europe's biggest LED planetarium is now open and using around 45 million LEDs to light up its 22-metre-wide domed ceiling in animations of the night sky, space travel and other visuals. Unlike ...

Professor Joe Mast hosts a program at the Brackbill Planetarium. The planetarium at Eastern Mennonite University brings up many emotions and fond memories, whether those memories are of the original ...

Many people are surprised to find out that Rowan University has a planetarium. Some folks are not quite sure exactly what a planetarium is, or have an incorrect notion about the facility. So today’s ...

A star projector shows stars in the night sky against an orange backdrop in the De Anza College’s Fujitsu Planetarium in Cupertino on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening, ...

It’s a quiet, sunny summer afternoon at the University of Washington’s physics-astronomy complex. But inside the hushed, empty auditorium building, Jake VanderPlas has turned off the lights and shut ...