CHILDREN at a Darlington school were given an unusual view of the night sky in a project designed to teach them about the solar system.
Starlab proved popular with year eight students at Hurworth School Computing and Maths College.
The Starlab is a large inflatable tent, which children enter via a tunnel to see representations of stars and constellations projected on to the roof.
The projections are animated and a commentary explains how the stars got their names and how to recognise them, making it similar to a miniature planetarium.
Teacher Janet McRae said: "It was as if they were staring out at the night sky and the children really enjoyed it.
"They were asking lots of questions and it got to the stage at the end where they were asking about aliens and what is out there."
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