In 2017, NPR called school planetariums “relics of the space race.” Because that’s what they’ve become. But what about privately owned planetariums, or ones the planetariums schools have continued to invest in? With so many ways for us to see outer space, what is the advantage of the planetarium today? And how can we explain an apparent drop-off in planetarium popularity in the U.S.?

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