The Hong Kong Space Museum's space theatre will re-open on July 1 with a new look after closing for more than seven months for renovations.

The $34 million overhaul includes a new digital planetarium projector and seats installed with a multi-language, interactive system.

With a resolution exceeding 53 million pixels, the new digital planetarium system boasts the highest resolution in a theatre. Only the Beijing Planetarium and the Hong Kong Space Museum can project such ultra-high definition images.

Coupled with Sony's latest projectors, introduced to the market in early 2009, the museum is one of the most advanced digital planetariums in the world.

The new system can project full dome animations or movies, which the old projector could not achieve.

The new seats are installed with a multi-language system offering narration in more than four languages.

Two new sky shows, Extreme Planets and Dawn of the Space Age, and one Omnimax show, The Alps, will be showing from July 1.

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