By Scott Etkin

For the first time in five years, a new film designed for the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater – the globe-shaped, laser-projection screen in the American Museum of Natural History – is debuting to the public June 9th (and to AMNH members starting June 6th).

“Encounters in the Milky Way” uses artistic renderings of real scientific data to describe how stars and space phenomena move and interact throughout our galaxy.

Due to light pollution, an Upper West Sider looking up at the night sky is lucky to see one or two stars. But there are billions of stars in the Milky Way, the galaxy where Earth is located. And while the stars appear to be locked in place, they’re actually moving. Just as Earth orbits the Sun, for example, the Sun orbits the Milky Way – one round trip takes

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