Space the final frontier. Last Saturday SEC star-gazers
traveled to the Hudson River Museum to get a better glimpse at the infinite
expanse that surrounds our planet.
The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers NY is home to the
historic Glenview Mansion featuring six distinct period rooms, the newly
revamped and now state of the art planetarium and a permanent exhibition on the
Hudson River’s history, geology and bio-diversity.
The planetarium show “Our sky tonight” was our final
destination on Saturday. Adventurers sat back, relaxed and stared up into the
night sky. We watched as the sun took its course across the sky on a late fall
day and the stars slowly appear.
Our moderator showed where we lie in the solar system in
relation to our other neighboring planet. Then finally we left planet earth
completely to see our galaxy (the Milky Way) in its totality.
Seeing the night’s sky from an outer space perspective can
you make you feel small and insignificant but simultaneously brings us together
by making you realize how close we really are.
“Things are impossible until they’re not” – Captain Jean Luc
Picard: Star Trek The Next Generation
