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Space Show Takes Viewers on a Stellar Journey

As moviegoers make plans to watch summer blockbusters this weekend, there is an additional choice for New Yorkers: Journey to the Stars, the new space show opening July 4 at the Hayden Planetarium in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Rose Center for Earth and Space.

Aside from the three years of planning and 18 months spent making the film, what's special about Journey to the Stars is the international effort that went into producing it, with leading astrophysics groups around the globe contributing the computer simulations derived from observational data. These simulations help scientists gain insight into faraway objects and events—a collision of galaxies, the progression of a supernova explosion, the formation of a planetary system—that they cannot see firsthand. [more]

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