Without breaking the bank, Microsoft’s research division and the University of Washington astronomy department have teamed up to bring new light to an old technology: the planetarium. Nearly three thousand planetariums dot the U.S. terrestrial landscape, featuring celestial shows about stars, planets, solar systems and galaxies, often projected onto an overhead dome-shaped screen by a technology that hasn’t changed much since it was introduced in 1923: the “star ball.”
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It's Not Your Grandpa's Planetarium Anymore
Posted by: Mike Martin December 9, 2010 05:00 AMWithout breaking the bank, Microsoft’s research division and the University of Washington astronomy department have teamed up to bring new light to an old technology: the planetarium. Nearly three thousand planetariums dot the U.S. terrestrial landscape, featuring celestial shows about stars, planets, solar systems and galaxies, often projected onto an overhead dome-shaped screen by a technology that hasn’t changed much since it was introduced in 1923: the “star ball.”