I loved the brand new area present on the American Museum of Pure Historical past’s Hayden Planetarium in New York Metropolis this week. Narrated by actor Pedro Pascal, Encounters in the Milky Way takes viewers on a mesmerising journey by way of our galactic neighbourhood.
The present does a fantastic job of illustrating simply how dynamic and chock-full of stuff our galaxy is. For example, in fact I knew that Earth orbits the solar, however I hadn’t appreciated that every thing – our solar, its stellar neighbours – is in fixed movement, zooming across the centre of the Milky Manner.
In a single charming sequence, visualised above, I discovered {that a} star system referred to as Gliese 710 is because of go by way of the Oort cloud, an enormous space of icy objects surrounding our photo voltaic system, in about 1.3 million years. The 2 star programs will swap comets and ship others hurtling out into area in what seems to be a spectacular present.
I’m simply bummed that I’ll miss it.
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