March 14, 2006
Planetarium debuts NASA co-produced space show
 A brand new space show, filled with plenty of hypersonic crashes, will premiere this weekend at the American Museum of Natural History's planetarium.
Narated by Robert Redford, "Cosmic Collisions" was developed by the museum's scientists in partnership with NASA and features new images from space and ground-shaking effects to simulate the meteorite impact on Earth that hastened the end of the Age of Dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
For the science geeks, this is total space porn:
Viewers will witness the violent face of our Sun, imaged by NASA satellites, that produces enormous ejections of material from our star towards our planet. The resulting subatomic clashes, as streams of charged particles from the Sun strike the Earth's magnetic field, produce the eerie glow of the aurora borealis and the aurora australis that fill the Hayden dome. Cosmic Collisions will also show the creation of our Moon some five billion years ago when a wandering planetoid struck Earth; the violent meeting of two stars at the edge of the galaxy; and the future collision of our Milky Way galaxy with our closest neighbor, the Andromeda spiral galaxy, a cosmic crash that will produce a new giant elliptical galaxy billions of years from now. The show, which debuts on March 18, runs about 40 minutes long. Ticket prices, which include admission to the museum and planetarium, costs $26 adults, $17 for children and $20.50 for seniors or students.
"Cosmic Collisions" will be shown in the Hayden Planetarium in the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. It is located at the corner of 79th Street and Central Park West, map.
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March 14, 2006 10:55 AM in Kids, Museums, Sightsology, Upper West Side
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