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a dome that lies about the sky so beautifully you forgive it everything.
means A domed theater where projectors cast a simulated night sky onto the ceiling, recreating stars, planets, and their movements for an audience below.
from From the Latin 'planeta' (wandering star) — itself borrowed from Greek 'planḗtēs,' a wanderer, because the planets visibly roamed against the fixed stars — paired with the Latin suffix '-arium,' which marks a place where something is kept or housed, as in 'aquarium' or 'herbarium.' So the word literally promises a place that holds the wanderers, a coinage of the modern scientific age when projection technology finally made an indoor heaven possible.
- first one
- Built in 1923 by Zeiss in Germany.
- fake stars
- Projects thousands of stars onto curved ceilings.
- name origin
- Latin for a model of the heavens.
- light cheat
- Shows skies impossible under modern city glow.
- oldest model
- Orreries predate them by two centuries.
griffith observatory — los angeles planetarium with 12.3 million visitors since 1935
adler planetarium — chicago's planetarium founded in 1930, first in the western hemisphere
hayden planetarium — new york's rose center planetarium with 32-meter diameter dome