How to Use planetarium in a Sentence
planetarium
noun-
The planetarium opened in 1975, the same year as the high school.
— Rafael Guerrero, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020 -
Instead, go to a planetarium for a night-time view of the sky — sans the frigid temps.
— Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 22 Dec. 2022 -
Just open the online planetarium and click on the date and time in the bottom right corner.
— Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021 -
When the auction came to an end the other day, there were zero bids on the telescope and one bid on the planetarium.
— Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020 -
The planetarium shows were the clear priority, as people filled the 54 seats for each of the five shows.
— Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 July 2019 -
One group wanted to put a planetarium-style screen to show short films, Dull said.
— Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 28 Apr. 2017 -
If those nights are cloudy, the park will host a planetarium show instead.
— Joan Rusek, cleveland, 16 May 2022 -
Dozens of events have been planned for the big day at restaurants, wineries, parks and planetariums alike.
— Catherine Garcia, theweek, 18 Mar. 2024 -
Guests to this planetarium show can sit back and learn about eclipses and how to safely observe them.
— Joan Dittmann, Post-Tribune, 21 June 2017 -
The inverted bowl of the planetarium’s screen comes to life.
— John Schwartz, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018 -
This is a free attraction with a small cost for the planetarium shows.
— John Pana, cleveland, 29 Apr. 2021 -
Dance on the rooftop or hangout in the planetarium or IMAX theater.
— Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022 -
This year, in Tunisia, there will be a full day of programming at the planetarium in Tunis.
— New York Times, 20 June 2018 -
Next comes the planetarium theater, which is enclosed in a sphere and emerges from the building's roof like a moonrise.
— CNN, 11 July 2021 -
Maybe the best news: The Frost is bringing back the popular rock’n’roll laser planetarium shows.
— Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 4 May 2017 -
The duo proceeded to the planetarium, where the students recorded a sweet voiceover about the planets.
— Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 23 Nov. 2021 -
The planetarium show costs $7 for adults and $5 for seniors ages 60 and older.
— Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 Jan. 2018 -
Inside the Antarctic dome was a planetarium-style digital light show that paid homage to the desert and Joshua Tree.
— Diya Chacko, Orange County Register, 17 Apr. 2017 -
In the 1960s, some of the astronauts in the Apollo program trained for the nation’s first moon mission in its planetarium.
— Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023 -
The area also has a new park with a planetarium, bike path, and cable car that takes people to one of the best views of the city, starring the Popocatepetl volcano.
— Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2021 -
In Clair Omar Musser’s desktop planetarium, each of the nine planets moved on its own shaft and ball chain.
— IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023 -
The lighting on the back of the mouse is just right, enough to mark it as a gaming mouse, but not so much that your desktop becomes a trippy planetarium show.
— Jess Grey, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2019 -
The ceiling of his screening room is a programmable planetarium based on the one at Pixar.
— New York Times, 22 Sep. 2019 -
The firm owns Spitz Inc., the planetarium endeavor founded in the 1940s by Armand Spitz, a principal in the field.
— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2024 -
The planetarium also plays host to free events, including rooftop stargazing the last Friday of the month.
— Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023 -
The hotel feels like a secluded cabin in the woods, and at night, the stars resemble a planetarium.
— Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022 -
The themes spill over outside the planetarium, such as using the museum’s new solar scopes to safely view the sun during the day.
— Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024 -
For the humans on board, the Queen Mary 2 has 13 decks, two pools — one with a retractable roof — daily afternoon tea, a planetarium, and the largest ballroom at sea.
— Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2020 -
The vantage then rises above the city and the bay, and then out of the atmosphere and into space—a vision of the heavens that outdoes even the splendor conjured, in planetariums of old, by the double-ended Zeiss Mark VI projector.
— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 -
The famed natural history museum, located in Golden Gate Park, has a tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, an aquarium, a planetarium and an indoor rainforest.
— Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 20 May 2024
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