This amazing new planetarium show is like Google Earth for the universe

By using advanced tech to reconstruct space, the Hayden Planetarium’s latest show could change how you see our cosmic neighborhood—and planetariums.

今日の英語の習慣化の題材は、壮大な宇宙のGoogleEarth的なNASAのCassini Spacecraftが捉えた映像です。

明日からお仕事の読者諸氏、頭を遥か宇宙の中に漂わせては如何でしょうか？

地球上のちっぽけな人間社会を一時的に忘るのも一興…

BY ALEX PASTERNACKLONG READ

We were sailing past the rings of Saturn, the disc of rocks, ice, and moonlets that circle our second-largest neighbor—so naturally my whole body was rattling. It was only after the lights came up that I noticed the actual reason: metal boxes beneath each seat, designed to vibrate our butts in sync with the universe.

I was at Worlds Beyond Earth, the new show at the Hayden Planetarium’s Giant Sphere theater at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. And the simulated sensation of spaceflight goes way beyond seat shakers. The museum now boasts what its president, Ellen J Futter, said last year is not only the most advanced planetarium on the planet but “the most advanced planetarium ever attempted.”