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Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium, announces the presentation of Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System at the Mississippi Planetarium. Learn more at Rainwaterobservatory.org. French Camp, MS (PRWEB) October 05, 2012 Rainwater Observatory and Planetarium (http://www.rainwaterobservatory.org) in French Camp, Mississippi will be offering a free public program called “Jupiter: Giant of the Solar System.” This presentation will be presented on Friday, November 9, 2012, starting at 7:00...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The International Dark-Sky Association and Loch Ness Productions are giving attendees of the International Astronomical Union Congress in Beijing a sneak peak of a full dome video on light pollution called "Losing the Dark." The video showing at the Beijing Planetarium on August 29 is a public service announcement that will give onlookers important facts about light pollution. "Our team designed the show to emphasize some of the...
Lee Rannals for RedOrbit.com Everything is bigger in Texas, but some things in the state just have to be the biggest. In the latest news, the state capital, Austin, will be earning itself the award of having the largest planetarium in Texas. The 157,000 square foot facility will be a world-class science and technology museum, fearing a full-spectrum interactive science museum, and a technology center. The Austin Planetarium will be built alongside with KUD International, a private...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On May 25, 2012, take a mind-blowing tour of the Universe like no other at the Adler Planetarium. Welcome to the Universe is the next adventure departing from the Grainger Sky Theater, the most technologically advanced theater in the world. In Welcome to the Universe, audiences travel a billion light-years and back flying through space, orbiting the Moon, zooming into a canyon on Mars, and soaring through the cosmic web where a...
In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter. Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of the sound of other planets. While most planetary probes have focused on imaging with cameras and radar and a couple have carried microphones, none of them successfully listened to the sound of another world. Now, a team from the University of Southampton, led by Professor Tim Leighton, has the answer. Using...
CHICAGO, March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adler Planetarium President Paul H. Knappenberger Jr., Ph.D., announced today that he would step down at the end of 2012 after 21 years of service. Knappenberger, who joined the Adler in 1991, has led the Museum through two major long-range plans that have significantly strengthened the planetarium. The most recent was initiated during the Adler's 75th anniversary in 2005. In that year, the institution announced a strategic plan to...
BREMERTON, Wash., Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. proudly announces the Digitarium Delta 2 digital planetarium system, the latest model in the company's best-selling Digitarium line. Digital planetariums project computer-generated, three-dimensional content onto a hemispherical surface. They are most often used for astronomy education but can display any type of immersive content. The Digitarium Delta 2 is an entry-level system, offering a compact...
CHADDS FORD, Pa., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The upgraded digital display system in the new Grainger Sky Theater isn't the only state-of-the-art technology audiences will experience when they visit Chicago's Adler Planetarium. Visitors to the new theater will see the universe projected on the most technologically advanced projection dome in the world: the NanoSeam(TM) dome, created by Spitz Inc, located in Chadds Ford, PA . When Adler audiences fly through the universe inside the new...
CHADDS FORD, Pa., Aug. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The upgraded digital display system in the new Grainger Sky Theater isn't the only state-of-the-art technology audiences will experience when they visit Chicago's Adler Planetarium. Visitors to the new theater will see the Universe projected on the most technologically advanced projection dome in the world: the Spitz NanoSeam(TM) dome. When Adler audiences fly through the Universe inside the new 70-foot hemispherical Grainger Sky Theater,...
BREMERTON, Wash., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with downtown Bremerton's First Friday Art Walk and with the cooperation of the Olympic Astronomical Society, the Pacific Planetarium will open its doors for the first time Friday, August 5th at 5pm. Night sky tours will run every half hour with the last show starting at 7:30pm. The Pacific Planetarium is an astronomy education and educational research facility operated by Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. Its mission is to...
