Crossword clues for planetarium
planetarium
- Meteor shower
- An apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
- An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome
- A building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
- Where to see stars
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planetarium \Plan`e*ta"ri*um\, n. [NL.: cf. F. plan['e]taire. See Planetary.] An orrery. See Orrery.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1734, "orrery," Modern Latin, from Late Latin planeta (see planet) + Latin -arium "a place for." Sense of "device for projecting the night sky onto the interior of a dome" is attested from 1929.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling. 2 An orrery.
WordNet
n. a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome
an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
[also: planetaria (pl)]
Wikipedia
A planetarium (plural planetaria or planetariums) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
A dominant feature of most planetaria is the large dome-shaped projection screen onto which scenes of stars, planets and other celestial objects can be made to appear and move realistically to simulate the complex 'motions of the heavens'. The celestial scenes can be created using a wide variety of technologies, for example precision-engineered 'star balls' that combine optical and electro-mechanical technology, slide projector, video and fulldome projector systems, and lasers. Whatever technologies are used, the objective is normally to link them together to provide an accurate relative motion of the sky. Typical systems can be set to display the sky at any point in time, past or present, and often to show the night sky as it would appear from any point of latitude on Earth.
Planetaria range in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 21-meter dome seating 423 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. Such portable planetaria serve education programs outside of the permanent installations of museums and science centers.
The term planetarium is sometimes used generically to describe other devices which illustrate the solar system, such as a computer simulation or an orrery. Planetarium software refers to a software application that renders a three-dimensional image of the sky onto a two-dimensional computer screen. The term planetarian is used to describe a member of the professional staff of a planetarium.
"Planetarium" (プラネタリウム Puranetariumu) is Ai Otsuka's tenth single, which was released on 21 September 2005. The single had great success and became Otsuka's second #1 hit on the Oricon charts, selling 316,425 copies. In 2005, Planetarium sold 215,114 copies, making it the #41 best-selling single of the year. However, it still charted into the next year and was the #99 best-selling single in 2006, selling 100,555 copies. Planetarium is her second best-selling single after " Sakuranbo."
"Planetarium" was also used as an OST for the Japanese drama " Hana Yori Dango".
In the iTunes Japan Store, Planetarium was the 12th most downloaded song in 2006.
is the tenth single by Bump of Chicken, released on July 21, 2005. The title track is from the album Orbital Period.
The Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium is a Belgian planetarium and part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office.
The dome of the planetarium measures 23 metres in diameter, on which the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the Milky Way and more than 8500 stars can be projected. The Zeiss UPP 23/5 projector of the planetarium is made up of 119 projectors and was built by the Carl Zeiss company of Jena.
Planetarium is a light rail station in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, served by the Blue Line of the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) TRAX system. The Blue Line has service from the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper. For several years before the Airport Extension was opened, it was also on the route of the Green Line.
Planetarium is an upcoming French drama film directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. The film stars Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp. The film will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film is scheduled to be released on 16 November 2016, by Ad Vitam Distribution.
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky.
Planetarium may also refer to:
- Astrarium, a type of astronomical clock
- Planetary machine, a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the solar system
- Orrery, a complex planetary machine, a term used after 1714
Music:
- Planetarium (song), a 2005 single by Japanese pop singer Ai Otsuka
- Planetarium (Bump of Chicken song), a single by Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken
- A 2008 song by Ikimono-gakari
- Planetarium, a piece of music by Squarepusher
Other:
- Planetarium (UTA station), a transit station in Salt Lake City
- Planetarium (film), a French film
Usage examples of "planetarium".
How could he assemble a decent planetarium show with half slides and half digital images?
Something about their dispersal from the viruslike module made him think of a planetarium star-field projector.
It had been Altair during indoctrination in the planetarium at Fremont State.
When you cross the bridge on foot, you notice how wide the Rhine is: from the Planetarium on the Düsseldorf side to Oberkassel: a good pound of cherries wide.
Ogni creatura intelligente bramava forse, consciamente o inconsciamente, di raggiungere quei lontani punti nel cielo, di sottrarsi alla forza di gravità, alle strettoie della prigione planetaria, e librarsi nelle immense distese degli spazi astrali?
In the Batesville Regional School, a visiting astronomer from the Delmor Planetarium in Little Rock explained to an auditorium of third and fourth-graders how eclipses happen, why people used to be afraid of them, and why they should never look directly at the Sun.
In the planetarium foyer was a mockup of the spacecraft which could have achieved the mission, perhaps in the early 1990s, assembled from hauntingly familiar components: Energia heavy-lift boosters, a Mir-based habitat module, a Mars lander built around Proton booster rocket stages.
The passageway was still as dark as a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket, even with the tiny glow from the white-hot tips of the fire tongs, and the sensation of lowering themselves down the elevator shaft still felt like a descent into the hungry mouth of some terrible creature.
Tomiko was now a member of the University Astronomy Club, she had written a couple of scripts for the planetarium in Forest Park, and she was about to collect her master's from SLU.
Although the looming bulk of the planetarium limited the lines of sight from the staff entrance, water glistened on the pavement between the two buildings.
Hollus’s shuttle dropped silently from the sky, and landed not as it had the first time, out front of the planetarium, but rather behind the museum, along Philosopher’s Walk, a grassy U of T parkette that snaked from Varsity Stadium over toward Hart House.
La quantità per chilogrammo al secondo era insignificante, ma su scala planetaria bastava per sprigionare un calore notevole, che si mantenne per miliardi di anni, riducendosi solo leggermente.
Also, too, many planetaria are still devoted to picking out constellations rather than travelling to other worlds, and depicting the evolution of galaxies, stars and planets.
The holoscope had supposedly been installed in the auditorium because it was donated to the expedition by a Japanese firm for purposes of advertising the product to planetariums on Earth.
Science fiction writers went to Star Trek Conventions, planetariums, and toured NASA.