Morehead Planetarium nominated in national contest

Posted Jan 29, 2025
A planetarium in North Carolina has been nominated for Best Planetarium by USA Today’s Readers’ Choice 2025. Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill is currently in fourth place on the list of twenty nominated planetariums. It is the first planetarium in the south and on a university campus to be nominated. It opened in 1949. (WNCT)

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