The 90-foot orb suspended inside a glass cube on Manhattan's Upper West Side is no UFO, though it is otherworldly.
The new Hayden Planetarium, part of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History (www.amnh.org), houses the largest virtual reality environment on the planet. But unlike star chambers that keep visitors grounded in a geocentric universe, the Hayden's Space Theater takes you out of this world. Coupled with a custom Zeiss MkIX Star Projector, the Digital Dome System displays 3-D, high-def images of 3 billion celestial bodies caught in flight by NASA and its European counterparts. "We'll fly you in real time past stars," says astrophysicist and project leader Jim Sweitzer, who plans to project a live feed from future shuttle missions. "And it'll look like the real thing."
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