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
  • An on-board planetarium offered visual journeys through the solar system, while movies played on big screens (and stateroom TVs).
    Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 20 July 2024
  • For the occasion, its dome’s striking ceiling was lit blue, turning it into a planetarium complete with pixelized spaceships and stars.
    Lily Templeton, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024

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