planetarium
30
5.3
- noun
- /ˌplænəˈtɛriəm/
- Ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the London Planetarium.
- Adler Planetarium
- Hayden Planetarium
- portable planetariums
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeYou get to talk like this in the Dome of a planetarium.
- You get to talk like this in the Dome of a planetarium.
- He has written planetarium shows for the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and scripts for NASA as well.
- One of those trips when I was nine years old was to the Hayden Planetarium, and I was starstruck.
- Frankly, this sounds like you're driving along in a planetarium.
- And some planetarium fans, we're seeing laser Floyd.
Examples
-
At the Adler Planetarium, you will see a marvelous "night show" of stars.
Academic text (1997) -
Pamela Eastlick is the planetarium coordinator at the University of Guam in Mangilao.
Academic text (1995) -
Mom and Dad are at the planetarium.
-
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the planetarium.
-
So I'm in a dark planetarium, completely silent aside from some background music and watching Journey to the Sun.
-
I haven't been to the planetarium since I was a little girl.
-
Forrest, April, and John are at the cutting edge of the most recent developments in planetarium education.
Academic text (1993) -
The teachers learn to integrate classroom astronomy units with planetarium visits and to encourage students to participate actively.
Academic text (1993) -
Earning a profit with a stargazing program can revive a planetarium or science center whose daytime sales are flagging.
Academic text (2000) -
The children were excited to watch the stars at the planetarium during their field trip.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Planetarium comes from planet, from an old word meaning 'wandering star', and the part -arium, which means 'place for' and is the same part in aquarium. So a planetarium is literally a 'place for planets', which is why it is a room or device that shows stars and planets on a domed ceiling.