Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History

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Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History

Address

15 West 81st Street

New York, NY 10024 

Phone

(212) 769-5100

Area

Neighborhood

Upper West Side

Web Page

http://www.amnh.org/rose/haydenplanetarium.html

Type of Makom

Museums Type

Science museum

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Description

The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and organizationally part of the American Museum of Natural History.

Since February 2000, the planetarium has been one of the two main attractions within the Rose Center for Earth and Space. The top half of the Hayden Sphere houses the Star Theater, which uses high-resolution fulldome video to project “space shows” based in scientific visualization of current astrophysical data, in addition to a customized Zeiss Star Projector system replicating an accurate night sky as seen from Earth. The bottom half of the Sphere is home to the Big Bang Theater, which depicts the birth of the universe in a four-minute program. As visitors leave the Planetarium theater, they exit to the Size Scales of the Universe exhibit which shows the vast array of sizes in the universe. This exhibit leads to the Big Bang Theater and exits to the Cosmic Pathway, which shows the history of the universe. From the bottom of the Cosmic Pathway, visitors can stop by the Hall of Planet Earth to explore geology, weather, plate tectonics and more, or go down to the Hall of the Universe to explore the realms of planets, stars, galaxies and more. [1]

Tips

This is a nice place to go on a date. It's fun and interesting. Every half hour there is a space show which is great. The one drawback is the price - though there is a student discount.

See also

• American Museum of Natural History