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The Brian Lehrer Show

Mapping the Stars

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Astrophysicist Jackie Faherty talks about a new show at the Hayden Planetarium.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Brian Ler on WNYC.

0:12.2

One quick program note before we do our last segment of today, which I think is going to be really fun.

0:17.6

You can tune in tonight at 7 here on the station, or if you have New York 1 on

0:22.7

spectrum cable, turn on your television, and you can see me and two other moderators

0:29.2

moderate the Democratic primary debate for New York City Comptroller. That's tonight at 7 o'clock.

0:36.2

And in addition to breaking down the results of the New Jersey

0:39.0

primary on tomorrow's show, which we were just talking about, we will also play excerpts from

0:44.1

and have analysis of that controller's debate. So tune in for it live tonight at 7 or

0:50.1

tomorrow morning when we're playing excerpts and taking your reactions. All right.

0:54.5

Now, if you have ever looked up at the night sky and wondered where we are, not just on Earth,

1:01.0

but in the galaxy, this one's for you.

1:04.7

We are a product of cosmic encounters.

1:08.3

And what's happening in the Milky Way galaxy is happening throughout our galactic

1:13.6

neighborhood and across the universe. I'm Pedro Pascal. Join me on a journey through our

1:22.6

tight-knit stellar neighborhood into the bustling metropolis of the Milky Way.

1:33.2

Did you recognize that voice? And yes, he did identify himself. A new space show. It opened yesterday

1:40.0

at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, called Encounters in the Milky Way,

1:46.9

takes audiences on a time-traveling journey through our galactic neighborhood.

1:51.0

Narrated by Pedro Pascal, the show is powered by new data from the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission,

1:58.4

which has mapped nearly two billion stars in our galaxy.

2:02.2

It's the first show in the planetarium's 25-year history to be built around the concept of

2:06.6

cosmic motion, not just the stars, but how our entire solar system is on the move through

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