The breathtaking new Space Show, Cosmic Collisions, narrated by award-winning actor, director, and producer Robert Redford, is now showing, at the Hayden Planetarium in the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space.
A young Earth is pictured moments after a collision with a Mars-sized wandering planetoid over four billion years ago.
Graphic representation shows how most of the ionized particles from the solar wind are deflected off the protective cocoon of the Earth's magnetic field.
A dramatic re-creation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the Age of Dinosaurs 65 million years ago is a highlight of the new Space Show, Cosmic Collisions, at the American Museum of Natural History.
Streams of charged particles from the fiery surface of the Sun-the solar wind-race towards the Earth at over a million miles an hour in this image taken by NASA satellites.
Creating the new Cosmic Collisions space show
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