At Armagh Planetarium visitors can use interactive displays to learn about the cosmos and watch the latest space news in real time.

Activities include designing, building and launching your own rocket.

The Armagh Celestial Cathedral is a beautiful gallery of illuminated deep space images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope framed in dramatic gothic arches.

The Astropark is a scale model of the Universe where visitors can walk through the Solar System and into the Milky Way and beyond.

One key attraction of Armagh Planetarium is the newly refurbished Digital Theatre that now offers the visitor a superlative visual and audio experience of their shows. Purpose-built reclining seats will allow audiences to fully experience the 3-D projection over the entire dome.

Outside, the landscaped grounds are dotted with stainless steel scale models of the planets demonstrating how small planet Earth is compared with some of its neighbouring worlds. The planets themselves are dwarfed by the great arch representing the limb of the Sun. Beyond the model planets is the Planetarium’s Hyper-Cube, an exhibit demonstrating the principles used to fit the immensity of the Cosmos into a tiny part of Armagh. 



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