In the stellar nursery within the Orion Nebula, young stars are forming before our eyes from a giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust much as the Sun did almost five billion years ago.

© American Museum of Natural History/NASA

Journey to the Stars  

• 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. every half hour, except Wednesdays
• Wednesday shows begin at 11:00 a.m.
• Visit the Journey to the Stars web site for more information and to view the trailer.

Journey to the Stars, an all-new Hayden Planetarium space show narrated by Academy Award–winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, launches visitors through time and space to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky. Audiences travel 13 billion years into the past, when the first stars were born, and witness brilliant supernova explosions that sent new kinds of matter coursing through the universe, into the atoms of our own bodies and the air we breathe. They visit the heart of our fiery Sun, and glimpse its eventual demise as it transforms into a massive red giant some five billion years in the future. Visitors tour stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars.