Saturday, January 30, 2010

Star Gazing

In NYC you can even see stars during the day!


Musuem of Natural History
The Rose Center at the museum is home to the Hayden Planetarium and the Space Show, Journey to the Stars.  "Featuring extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling new Journey to the Stars launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including our own nurturing Sun. Journey to the Stars is an engrossing, immersive theater experience created by the Museum’s astrophysicists, scientific visualization, and media production experts with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and more than 40 leading scientists from the United States and abroad."  (5 West 81 Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue, Map)


Grand Central Terminal
Where else could you be in a enclosed train station with a view of the stars?  High above the busy Main Concourse is a ceiling mural of the stars.  Painted in 1912 by French painter Paul Helleu, the mural portrays the Mediterranean sky with October to March zodiac and 2,500 stars.  Some people may notice that the sky is actually backwards, which some attribute to a medieval manuscript while others says it was just a bad mistake.  (42nd & Park Avenue, Map)

And for the other type of 'star' you can head to the NBC Studios Tour...

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