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 ...

Six of the 32 slides, called star plates, once used by the Zeiss IV projector to display northern and southern hemisphere stars on the domed planetarium ceiling at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum ...

A class of Jones Magnet Middle School sixth-graders tilted their heads back and stared at the ceiling as they prepared to learn a new lesson. Sara Clemmer, a math teacher, turned off each set of ...

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 ...