PLANETARIUM

• (noun) an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems

• (noun) an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome

• (noun) a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling

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