SPARTANBURG, S.C. —

A new multimillion-dollar planetarium and maker space has opened at the Spartanburg County Public Library in downtown Spartanburg.

The planetarium, which officials said is only the second in the country to be attached to a public library, features a 50-foot dome with 135 seats. Hundreds of families visited for the first time to experience its visuals.

"I mean, it kind of hurt my brain to look. It was so beautiful, like, amazing. Like, I couldn't see anything like it," visitor Hudson Nieerach said.

County Librarian Todd Stephens explained that they collaborated with NASA and other third parties to create the imagery inside the dome.

"What you can do is project in real time, so we can pull up to the night sky and what it looks like," he said. "We can pull up the day

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