Planetarium Content

NARRATED BY: Whoopi Goldberg

“Entertainer Whoopi Voyage through space and time to experience Goldberg’s narration the birth, life, and death of stars – including makes the complex our own nurturing Sun. topics seem like a

Witness the brilliant explosions that birthed the stars in our night sky. Visit familiar stellar thrilling tale around formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating story that connects us a campfire.” all to the stars. This dazzling space show takes viewers on a tour of extraordinary visualizations — Scientific American created from scientific observations using both ground-based and space-based telescopes. v

Witness the creation of the Milky Way galaxy, and the birth of the Sun and its siblings in a stellar cluster.

Tour familiar stellar formations, such as Orion and the Pleiades. Themes:

A Universe Without Stars A Glimpse of the Future How are distant stars the source of Travel five billion years into the future Discover what’s everything we see around us? Experience to witness a startling sight: the Sun happening inside the how the first stars were formed in a balloons into a red giant and will Sun, and what makes dramatic blaze of nuclear fusion. ultimately blow out into the universe. stars shine. Solar History Our Galactic Neighborhood

Witness the birth of the Sun and its Fly around the Sun’s neighbors and siblings in a stellar cluster in the Milky see a variety of stars, from the stellar Way galaxy, about five billion years ago. nursery of the Orion Nebula to a brown Follow the trajectory of dwarf orbiting a red star near Earth. the space probe Voyager 1 The Life of Stars to the outer limits of the solar system. Satellite images and visualizations illustrate what makes stars shine. Follow a flare of the Sun’s solar wind

and witness auroras on Earth and Saturn along the way.

Visit a star system featuring a brown dwarf circling a red star. “Easily the most beautiful planetarium show I have ever seen.” — The New York Times

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AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: English, French, German, Italian, CREDITS: Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish

Journey to the Stars was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York in collaboration with the STANDARD RENTAL LENGTH: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan; Papalote Museo del Niño, Mexico City, Mexico; and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. 1 year

Journey to the Stars was created by the American Museum of Natural History, with the major support and partnership SUPPORTING ASSETS: of NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Heliophysics Division. Educator Guide, Pre-show loop, Image credits: © AMNH Marketing kit