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From the outside, a planetarium and an observatory might look a somewhat similar, but it's what's inside that counts.

where they found "solid evidence" to the existence of the additional planets orbiting Barnard's Star, according to the paper. "We observed at different times of night on different days," Basant said.

While both deal with space, planetariums and observatories are different. Observatories use telescopes to view the actual sky, while planetariums project simulations of the stars and planets.