Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Teen Adventure Planetarium Extravaganza


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


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