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...planetarium picture of stars in the night sky is breathtakingly spectacular at first sight, monotonous after repetition. Stokley, the greatest showman in planetariana, provides variety to keep planetari-addicts coming in. Three years ago he depicted the "End of the World"-a huge moon drawing close to Earth after millions of years, eventually breaking up and showering Earth with its fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planetarian | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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