World's largest planetarium opens in Shanghai

Updated: Jul 17, 2021 Xinhua Print

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A visitor experiences inside life-size space station core module Tianhe of China at the Shanghai Astronomy Museum, the world's largest planetarium in terms of building scale, on July 17, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Viewed from the air, the main building of the museum looks like a super bowl of astronomical instruments with a circular skylight, an inverted spherical dome, and a dome theater.

Like the mechanism of sundials, a light spot on the ground changes as sunlight shines through the circular skylight and will be a perfect circle on the noon of the Summer Solstice.

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