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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Adler Planetarium opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere, and one of its main attractions was a star projector: the Zeiss Mark II. This year - after a ...

The W.A. Gayle Planetarium will begin its second quarter public programming Saturday with two full-dome shows thanks to a ...

Nestled in Big Bear, California, is the largest assemblage of planetarium projectors…well, anywhere. Owen Phairis is the owner, director, and curator of the Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, a ...

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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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — For many years, visitors of the Springfield Museums’ Seymour Planetarium could look forward to PowerPoint presentations, which were simply a rectangle projected onto the roof of the dome ...

The Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus is celebrating a special centennial this weekend. While the planetarium itself isn't 100 years old, the invention of the ...

The device is not only a technological marvel, but could easily be an exhibit in the very museum where it remains in operation.

The University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium is getting a new projector. “The biggest thing is since it’s a newer technology, we’re going to have better resolution, it’s going ...

After closing to the public last month to allow for some needed projector upgrades, Orange Coast College’s Planetarium on Saturday will host a free grand-reopening event, offering a slate of ...

Mirror photo by Colette Costlow / Glendale science teacher Ethan Maneval points to the lightbulb in the center of the projector system in the Glendale Junior Senior High School planetarium. FLINTON — ...