Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Gone are the 100 slide projectors, the analog speakers, the lasers, the strobe lights and even ...

Since its opening, and until recent years, our Zeiss Model VIa optical planetarium projector has brought the wonder of the night sky to countless visitors. The Zeiss Company no longer services the ...

May 7, 1925, saw the debut of the projection planetarium at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. The first planetarium of ...

— With a few computer keystrokes, Chris Fenwick, astronomer at the Longo Planetarium at County College of Morris in Randolph, zipped through 400 light-years of the universe in three seconds. The ...

'Resolution was the bottom line.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After 52 years of using optical-mechanical projection systems ...

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 ...

Who doesn’t love a good tour of the Universe? And while not every planetaruim can own a state-of-the-art digital system, these 16 analog star displays from our friends at Oobject are simply stunning.

JACKSON — A new digital projection system at Jackson's Russell C. Davis Planetarium brings full dome digital cinema to the state's largest screen and represents a stellar upgrade for the 1978 facility ...

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 ...

After being closed for nearly three years, the planetarium adjacent to Washington-Liberty High School is wishing upon a star that it will reopen later this fall. With that done, the planetarium is ...