* The 200-seat, 60 foot diameter, Planetarium Theater will feature a fiber-optic star projector that will simulate a glorious day and night sky. Real dark sky stargazing is, unfortunately, not easily available for 95 percent of Minnesotans. The theater will also include a full-dome, 3-D video system that will engage audiences like never before.
* The North Star Observatory will connect visitors to remote telescopes and orbiting satellites portraying recent and live images! For example, a 2nd grader can view Saturn -- live -- at 11am in the morning via a satellite link to a telescope on the other (night) side of our planet. It will also feature an iconic 8-foot Earth Globe displaying live images of our planet.
* The Space Exposition Hall will feature traveling national exhibits. An "art" gallery of Hubble Space Telescope images is one of the most popular exhibits currently on tour.
* The signature virtual theater will add an innovative, thrilling environment in which the theater walls, ceiling and floor seem to disappear and turn into a spectacular space scape like the surface of Mars!
* A traveling Star Lab outreach program will bring cutting-edge astronomy education to communities across Minnesota.
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