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...hour and a half after school groups are herded out of the Boston Museum of Science, a more idiosyncratic crowd files in for trippy laser lights and classic rock. At 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, the museum’s Hayden Planetarium hosts “Laser Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon.” In this planetarium, stars are heard instead of seen. Laser Floyd gets off to a slow start, when images of cash registers—probably borrowed from clip art circa 1994—spin around the planetarium dome...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson owes hiscolleague Michael Brown a big thank-you--and flowers wouldn't be a bad idea either. Back in 2000, Tyson, an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years...
Tyson's heretical planetarium exhibit was based on the theory that there must be lots of things out there the size of Pluto. Brown and Trujillo found some of them, and for the past year and a half, the pressure has been on to decide once and for all which are planets and which are not. 2003 UB313 just upped the ante. But it is like trying to define continent, says Brown. "Some geographers call Australia a continent," he says, "and some call it a very big island. There is no scientific definition." It is human nature to put things...
Last night, the class met inside a inflatable planetarium, invented by Sadler himself, in which they observed stars, constellations and celestial coordinates...
...world's largest ocean liner, the QUEEN MARY 2, made its first crossing from Southampton, England, to New York City last week amid much fanfare--and gale-force winds. Equipped with 10 restaurants, five pools and a planetarium, the 21-story vessel looked right at home amid Manhattan's skyscrapers. Even Donald Trump must have envied the publicity...