APJ Abdul Kalam Planetarium in Burla, SAMBALPUR, ODISHA, INDIA On 22/09/2017 Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik dedicated the Sambalpur planetarium named after former President and missile man APJ Abdul Kalam to the state and inaugurated the second planetarium of Odisha, at Burla in Sambalpur district. This is the first planetarium in western Odisha and second in the state after Pathani Samanta Planetarium in Bhubaneswar. A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. Planetariums are the world's astronomy classrooms and theaters of public science education that have served perhaps a billion people during the past century A dominant feature of most planetarium is the large dome-shaped projection screen onto which scenes of stars, planets and other celestial objects can be made to appear and move realistically to simulate the complex ...
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