Wesley Morris

The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

American Critic

A planetarium is often used for education, especially for learning about astronomy and space.

Educational Use

Planetariums are popular public attractions where people can simulate sky watching.

Public Attraction

Visiting a planetarium can be a cultural experience, often featuring shows about myths and legends of the stars.

Cultural Experience

Planetariums can be small devices for personal use, to enjoy stargazing at home.

Personal Use

A planetarium projector can be an educational and entertaining gift for space enthusiasts.

Gift Idea

These devices create an indoor simulation of the night sky, useful in areas with light pollution.

Indoor Experience

 because of vision loss. And so they wondered if there was anything I could do. So I collected all the sounds I could think of from the universe and packaged them into what became "Our Musical Universe." This is a sound-based planetarium show exploring the rhythm and harmony of the cosmos.

What does the universe...

 On the other hand, if it's just our brain's autocorrecting the size of objects near the horizon, then we'd expect the moon illusion to be visible inside a planetarium, where the whole sky, including the horizon, is displayed on a spherical dome overhead. Studies have shown, though,

The moon illusion -...

 they had the big demonstrations that they ran in the planetarium that where they could describe the constellations and things like that we did that by bicycle it was there that he started to imagine the possibility of life outside our planet

Frank Drake’s Cosmic...

 and it wasn't until I made this piece that I realized that I'd effectively made the interior of a planetarium, without even realizing that. And I remembered, as a child, loving going to the planetarium. And back then, the planetarium,

How we experience time...

 around the Sun astronomers like to describe the equinoxes within the conceptual celestial sphere here the heavens are projected around the earth like an enormous planetarium the model is bisected by the celestial equator a

Equinoxes PIPE National...

 he performed a kind of special effect which made it into a giant planetarium, the wonder of the universe. Everyone looked in that, and they saw in there the total interconnectedness of all life in all universes.

Bob Thurman: We can be...

 We have a growing user base of this, and we network domes. And we can network between domes and classrooms. We're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub-Saharan planetarium in Ghana as well as

Carter Emmart demos a 3D...

 holes edged in it those are constellations light comes through these holes gets projected in Reverse back out through this lens and goes on the Dome of the planetarium this is one of the lenses of the original

Inside Neil deGrasse...

 a growing user base of this when we network domes and we can network between domes and classrooms we're actually sharing tours of the universe with the first sub saharan planetarium in Ghana

A 3D atlas of the...

 are how short our lifetimes are and hopefully they walk out of that planetarium with a very altered sense of their lives and our on earth