A grand reopening for the planetarium in Hibbing

Kevin Milani operates the computer control board in the newly renovated Palucci Space Theater on the Hibbing Community College campus Tuesday morning. More than $100,000 in donations were raised over the past year to fund needed upgrades.

 Mark Sauer

HIBBING — Sitting at the instrument panel that controls the projection system, Kevin Milani navigates a complex set of buttons and switches to present a slideshow of the recent construction project done in the Paulucci Space Theatre, the largest planetarium in northern Minnesota.

More than a dozen people from across the Iron Range rest in the chair beneath the 40-foot dome and take in photographs showcasing what it took for staff to install a new projector able to share more programs with the public and take them on explosively vivid adventures into space.

  
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