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Learning Research in the Planetarium After 1990

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The 50-year period after the 1930 opening of the first formal planetarium in Chicago hosting a towering Zeiss star projector might be considered the golden age of the planetarium.

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Slater, T.F., Tatge, C.B. (2017). Learning Research in the Planetarium After 1990. In: Research on Teaching Astronomy in the Planetarium. SpringerBriefs in Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57202-4_4

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