Dream First: Inspiration at Hayden Planetarium s Event

Dream First: Inspiration at Hayden Planetarium s Event:
Earth orbited by brightest satellites. Photo Credit: Neil Rasmus/BFAnyc.com
Thursday night I journeyed through the Universe. I was in the Hadyen Planetarium, gazing at the stars, surrounded by some of the top tech startup and media outlet folk. Our guide was not Whoopi Goldberg, but Carter Emmart , director of Astrovisualization at American Museum of Natural History. Like a double-decker tour guide of the cosmos, he pointed out all the main local attractions. We met up with the International Space Station above California, saw the many brightest satellites revolving around the Earth, dove into Tycho crater on the moon, and saw Mars volcanoes and valleys. The resolution was mind-boggling, especially when he magnified the view to a meter s length on the moon. From there, Emmart moved out to all the known exoplanets, the edge of the Milky Way, the galaxy clusters, until he came upon the microwave radiation at the edge of the unknown. All the while he commented on the accuracy of the data, how it was collected, the atmosphere, terrain, and its history. The entire trip had been unscripted: he just spontaneously guided us through space using a simple computer mouse!
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