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19-May-2007, 04:53 AM
The Queen will switch on the stars again in the skies over south-east London next week, as the new £16m planetarium at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich opens for business.
When the planetarium, part of the National Maritime Museum, shut three years ago, the response from visitors was instant. So deep was the reservoir of affection for the tiny, Heath Robinson planetarium in the dome of the old telescope that notices had to be put up all over the site, promising that it would be back, much bigger and much better than ever.
Read more (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C%2C2083249%2C00.html)
When the planetarium, part of the National Maritime Museum, shut three years ago, the response from visitors was instant. So deep was the reservoir of affection for the tiny, Heath Robinson planetarium in the dome of the old telescope that notices had to be put up all over the site, promising that it would be back, much bigger and much better than ever.
Read more (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0%2C%2C2083249%2C00.html)