The Tanoto Planetarium and Digital Theater makes use of a sophisticated computer projection system to display the heavens on a 33-foot dome. This same technology allows presentation of full-dome IMAX-type programs. In addition, it generates a blank digital canvas that offers creative opportunities for imaginative students and faculty, across the entire curriculum. Directly outside the Tanoto Planetarium is a 50-inch plasma screen monitor that continuously displays NASA Viewspace, a direct and continuous link to the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. This dynamic building, which uniquely merges the indefinable inspirations of art and architecture with the exactness of science, mathematics, and technology, fosters discovery, innovation, and learning, and will support an atmosphere of intellectual excitement for generations of Deerfield students and faculty.
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