by chris@bouncingball.pro | Oct 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jason Achilles is an LA-based musician and producer. Jason Achilles helped put the microphones on the Perseverance Mars rover, capturing our first sounds of another planet. Jacon Achilles delivers a unique, live planetarium experience that combines both of those...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Oct 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Black Holes are some of the most mysterious and compelling objects in the Universe, and are always one of the most popular subjects for planetarium shows, drawing in audience curiosity and questions from adults and children alike. But because of their complexity,...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Why is Pluto not a planet? Yesterday, August 24th, 2025, marked the 19th anniversary of Pluto’s reclassification (some prefer “demotion”) from “planet” to “dwarf planet” changing the longstanding count of planets in our Solar...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
We have much to learn from asteroids, but researching them is not just theoretical. Although most asteroids are gravitationally corralled by the planets, thousands exist on trajectories that still have potential to intersect with the planets, especially through...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
This year’s Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria will feature the debut of Cultural Astronomy, a brand new experience in the DeepSpace8K 3D immersive theater. Detailed 3D scans of cultural heritage sites will be combined with high-resolution terrain data...
by chris@bouncingball.pro | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
My deeper exploration of bringing in geospatial data into planetarium software coincided with the release of Dawn’s high resolution maps from Vesta, and as I worked with my colleagues to develop a variety of educational programs on asteroid missions and research,...
