(n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.
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Planetarium
Definition:
(n.) An orrery. See Orrery.
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(1) It has regular open evenings featuring planetarium presentations.
(2) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(3) A depiction of the Mayan calendar at the planetarium of the 'Mini World' theme park in Lichtenstein, Germany, on 19 December 2012.
(4) In Scotland, Glasgow Science Centre has a fibreoptic star projector in its planetarium for eye-opening realism.
(5) In 1962, Kaufman and Rock reported that the moon illusion did not occur in the darkness of a planetarium or in a completely dark room.
(6) Complex and simple spike responses of Purkinje cells were recorded in the flocculus of anesthetized, paralyzed rabbits during rotating full-field visual stimuli produced by a three-axis planetarium projector.
(7) Beneath this hypothetical roofline, the building that now houses a planetarium, several slices of rainforest, a colony of seabirds, giant reptiles, classrooms, bats, 18 million pickled animal specimens, chameleons, temporary exhibition spaces, geckos, auditorium, frogs, cafeteria, lungfish, and millions of visitors each year was initially left undrawn.
(8) Starry-eyed Winchester Science Centre has the largest-capacity planetarium in the UK, and runs adults-only After Dark events, with a chance to interact with the exhibits and enjoy a curry and wine or beer at the cafe.
(9) One of the most insistent Mayan apocalypse deniers has been astrophysicist and director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
(10) It said that from an original budget of €300m, the cost of the dazzling complex – which includes a concert hall, opera house, planetarium and science museum among its many features – swelled to more than €1bn by the time it was completed in 2005.
(11) Its clear glazed walls reveal some of the attractions inside, notably the two great spheres of its planetarium and artificial rainforest.
(12) Three illumination conditions were used: The inside of the planetarium was completely dark, was lighted, or was projected with the silhouette of a city under a starry sky.
(13) If you need more visual spectacle, there is an IMAX cinema next door to the planetarium.
(14) The visually modulated neurons in the dorsal cap responded optimally to slow rotation of random dot stimuli, which were produced using handheld patterns or a planetarium projector.
(15) Two pairs of light points, separated by 3.5 degrees, were presented on the dome screen of a planetarium.
(16) Kittens were reared in a planetarium-like visual environment that lacked straight line contours.
(17) The planetarium offers the thrill of journeys to the stars, while the rainforest sphere delights with four different habitats on four different levels.