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/ Modified feb 16, 2017 12:01 p.m.

A Portable Planetarium?

There's a little known traveling "observatory" that brings the night sky to elementary school gymnasiums in Southern Arizona... after it gets inflated, of course.

You may heard of the Lowell Obervatory in Flagstaff that played a major role in the discovery of Pluto. Or the Steward Obervatory on the University of Arizona Campus. But there's a little known traveling "observatory" that brings the night sky to elementary school gymnasiums in Southern Arizona... after it gets inflated, of course.

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