Sergei Sobyanin: Moscow Planetarium displays 9,000 stars

The Moscow Planetarium has hit the 95-year mark, Sergei Sobyanin shares on his Telegram channel. 

“It is the country’s number one and the world’s most advanced planetarium. About a million people visit it every year,” Moscow Mayor writes.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin 

The Planetarium’s main hall is topped with Europe’s largest 25-meter dome screen and houses the next-gen Universarium M9 projector that shows 9,000 stars.

The Moscow Planetarium also offers unique full-dome movies created by the in-house film studio, 3D films and musical concerts.

Its interactive space, Lunarium, displays 92 exhibits; 23 of them are Russia-made. Visitors are invited to manage the earthly elements and time or even produce some space processes, such as a solar flare, while looking through the refracting telescope in the Grand Observatory, they can view the Sun, the Moon, the Earth's neighboring planets and giant planets in the details.