{"id":3,"date":"2011-11-08T19:04:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T22:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:35:30","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2011\/11\/planetarium1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/365\/2011\/11\/planetarium1.jpg\" alt=\"Portable planetarium at a Williamson County elementary school - 3rd graders\" width=\"563\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In close partnership with Vanderbilt University&#8217;s historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu\/\">Dyer Observatory<\/a>, the Physics &amp; Astronomy departments of both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fisk.edu\/academics\/SchoolNaturalSciencesMathsBusiness\/LifePhysicalSciences\/Physics.aspx\">Fisk University<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.vanderbilt.edu\/\">Vanderbilt University<\/a> are proud to announce a public outreach initiative comprising a large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlab.com\/\">inflatable planetarium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By projecting a representation of the night sky onto the dome&#8217;s interior, we are able to teach students about the constellations and various mythologies, the nature of stars, the Sun-Earth-Moon system, the Solar System planets and their motions, and many other celestial phenomena in a fun yet informative manner.\u00a0 For more information on topics we can address using the planetarium, please click <a title=\"Topics\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/topics\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you represent a school, a community institution, or an educational institution in the state of Tennessee, and would like to request an astronomy presentation using our planetarium, please click <a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/contact\/\">here<\/a>.<strong> There is no charge for our educational services if ou are educational<\/strong>. Thank You.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>We are back in a limited capacity (school year 2024-25).\u00a0 Maybe we can work together!<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In close partnership with Vanderbilt University&#8217;s historic Dyer Observatory, the Physics &amp; Astronomy departments of both Fisk University and Vanderbilt University are proud to announce a public outreach initiative comprising a large inflatable planetarium. By projecting a representation of the night sky onto the dome&#8217;s interior, we are able to teach students about the constellations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/planetarium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}