Nothing can crush and ego like contemplating the immensity, vastness and age of the solar system.
And the newly opened Rose Center for Earth and Space brings this feeling to fruition. Although you won t find any aliens invading this new space center, you ll find plenty of scientific facts that are just as fascinating as little green men. The brand new Hayden Planetarium houses the virtual reality Space Show, while the Big Bang Theater takes visitors back to the dawn of time for a multi-sensory theatrical recreation of the universe. Leading out of the theater, is the Heilbrunn Cosmic Pathway, which spirals beneath the planetarium, offering a scaled down walk through 13 billion years of intergalactic time. One step on this pathway equals 75 million years of cosmic evolution, making humanity s time on earth about the thickness of a strand of hair.