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'Adler After Dark', the Adler Planetarium's 21+ evening event, was voted "Best After Hours Event" of 2013 by the Chicago Reader [32] and "Best Date Night" by Chicago Parent. [33] Guests at Adler After Dark have open museum access, themed programs, sky shows and views of the Chicago skyline.
Grace Annamarie Wolf-Chase (née Wolf) is an American astronomer and science educator, working as a senior scientist and senior education and communication specialist at the Planetary Science Institute. Her research interests include star formation, planet formation. [1] She is also interested in citizen science, and was one of the creators of ...
Lucianne Walkowicz (/ ˈ w ɔː k ə w ɪ tʃ / WAW-kə-witch; [1] born 1979) is an American astronomer, artist, and activist.They were based at the Adler Planetarium until 2022 and are noted for their research contributions in stellar magnetic activity and its impact on planetary suitability for extraterrestrial life.
Its gravity is extremely powerful — not as strong as a black hole, according to Chicago's Adler Planetarium, but roughly 100,000 to 300,000 times the gravity on Earth.
Development of modern planetariums. 1919. Walther Bauersfeld, chief design engineer and later director of Carl Zeiss, hit upon the idea of projection of the celestial objects in a dark room. The original plan had been for some sort of globe similar to that of the 1654 Globe of Gottorf. The new idea simplified things immensely.
Jim Cherry Memorial Planetarium at the Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta. Mark Smith Planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon. Omnisphere Theater, Coca-Cola Challenger Space Science Center, Columbus State University, Columbus. Rollins Planetarium at Young Harris College, Young Harris.
Man Enters the Cosmos is a cast bronze sculpture by Henry Moore located on the Lake Michigan lakefront outside the Adler Planetarium in the Museum Campus area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture is a functional bowstring equatorial sundial created in 1980 measuring approximately 13 feet (4.0 m). [2][3] The sundial was formerly located ...
Added to NRHP. September 5, 1975. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5][6] and its extensive scientific ...