Though the Museum has reopened, the Hayden Planetarium remains temporarily closed. The popular Astronomy Live planetarium program carries on as Astronomy Online, offering guided tours of the universe as livestream events every first Friday of the month on the Museum’s YouTube channel at 1 pm ET.

Coming up:
Friday, February 5, at 1 pm ET: Astronomy Online: Space Junk. Take a journey through outer space to see human-made and interstellar debris with Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty. Deion Desir, New York City high school science teacher and alum of the Museum’s Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science program, pilots a virtual flight through a new space debris data set in OpenSpace, the interactive data visualization software designed to visualize the entire universe. Visit satellites, including SpaceX’s controversial Starlink, then voyage beyond our solar systems to bodies such as Borisov and Oumuamua. Join the free live online program here.