blank - loving tourists often go to Manhattan to impose the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History . But starting December 9 , they ’ll be able to get their filling of wizard and planet in nearby Jersey City . AsAstronomyreports , New Jersey ’s second - most - populous metropolis is now home to the largest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere , and the fourth largest in the world .
The Liberty Science Center in Jersey City , an interactive scientific discipline museum in Liberty State Park , openedin 1993.It ’s home to12 museum exhibition hall , aquariums , a hot beast assembling , and an IMAX dome theater . On July 31 , 2017 , the house was closed for extensive renovations , thanks to a $ 5 million endowment from an altruistic former high school instructor - turn - philanthropist , Jennifer Chalsty , who ’s wait on as a skill core trustee since 2004 .
Renamed the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium , the IMAX theater of operations received a digital upgrade and a steel - novel screen , and was provided with the requisite technology to dish out as a planetarium . The theater ’s dome is 60 feet high , with a diam of 89 foot , and its 10 - projector organisation circularize onto a 12,345 - square - foot domed filmdom .
There are only three planetariums in the existence that are bombastic than the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium , and they ’re all site in China and Japan . “ you’re able to match any other planetarium in the Western Hemisphere inside the Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium , ” said Paul Hoffman , the science center ’s president and CEO , in a press freeing . “ Add in the state - of - the - art technology and you have a spectacular unequalled dramatic art like none other in the existence . Visitors will be able to fly through the universe , experience the grandness and vastness of space , roam planetary surfaces , navigate asteroid field of force , and watch the latest full - noodle movie . "
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