DARK UNIVERSE, the new Hayden Planetarium Space Show premiering November 2, 2013, at the American Museum of Natural History, is produced by an acclaimed team that includes astrophysicists and data visualization experts. The script is written by award-winning science author Timothy Ferris. In addition to penning several best-selling books and consulting on space exploration policy for NASA, Ferris has another intriguing credit on his résumé-in 1977 he produced the "Golden Records" carried by the two Voyager spacecraft on their journey through our solar system and beyond.
Voyager 1 and 2 spent more than a decade exploring our planetary neighbors, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before turning towards interstellar space. On February 17, 1998, Voyager 1 became the most distant human-made object, and both spacecraft continue to send back data and in August 2012, Voyager I left our solar system. While it will be 40,000 years before they approach another planetary system, NASA believes the "Golden Records" may still be readable, able to "communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials."
DARK UNIVERSE celebrates the pivotal discoveries that have led us to greater knowledge of the structure and history of the universe and our place in it-and to new frontiers for exploration. The Space Show is narrated by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and opens November 2, 2013, at the American Museum of Natural History.
DARK UNIVERSE was created by the American Museum of Natural History, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, and the Hayden Planetarium.
Made possible through the generous sponsorship of ACCENTURE.
And proudly supported by CON EDISON.
The Museum also gratefully acknowledges major funding from the Charles Hayden Foundation.
Presented with special thanks to NASA and the National Science Foundation.
DARK UNIVERSE was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org),
in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco and GOTO INC, Tokyo, Japan.