{"id":29582,"date":"2025-06-13T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29582"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:29:27","slug":"traveling-the-cosmos-with-carter-emmart-one-last-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29582","title":{"rendered":"Traveling the Cosmos With Carter Emmart, One Last Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The starship on West 81st Street and Central Park West is losing its captain.<\/p>\n

For nearly three decades, Carter Emmart, 64, has been director of astro-visualization at the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s Hayden Planetarium, curating the ultimate diorama: a digital universe of data and images culled from space probes and telescopes the world over. Mr. Emmart and his crew have created a series of mesmerizing planetarium shows over the years that take audiences forward and backward in time and space to understand the origin and potential fate of the cosmos.<\/p>\n

With shoulder-length hair, beads, bracelets and a propensity to show up for big events in a blue astronaut jumpsuit, Mr. Emmart himself seems to have been beamed in from somewhere Out There. His Manhattan office is festooned with a collection of Barbies, dolls he has used in design models, which he has lugged to all corners of the world, having dressed them in regional costumes.<\/p>\n

To date, millions of planetarium visitors have watched and heard stars explode; galaxies collide; clouds of interstellar space dust glow, swirl and melt. They have zoomed over alien landscapes and pierced the mysterious dark matter that permeates space. The shows have been narrated by celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Whoopi Goldberg and the museum\u2019s own impresario of the sky, Neil deGrasse Tyson. The shows have been distributed to 60 different institutions in 40 countries.<\/p>\n

A very lucky viewer could lie on the floor of the planetarium on a recent slow afternoon as Mr. Emmart led a personal tour of his digital universe, pausing to appreciate craters on the moon and the dunes of Mars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Emmart\u2019s final show, \u201cEncounters in the Milky Way,\u201d which opened on June 9, traces the history and future of our own galaxy. At the end of the summer, Mr. Emmart plans to retire to Thailand. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to being in nature with the peace and quiet,\u201d he said recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEncounters in the Milky Way,\u201d Mr. Emmart\u2019s final show at the planetarium, opened on June 9.<\/span>American Museum of Natural History<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The starship on West 81st Street and Central Park West is losing its captain.For nearly three decades, Carter Emmart, 64, has been director of astro-visualization at the American Museum of Natural History\u2019s Hayden Planetarium, curating the ultimate diorama: a digital universe of data and images culled from space probes and telescopes the world over. Mr. Emmart and his crew have created a series of mesmerizing planetarium shows over the years that take audiences forward and backward in time and space to understand the origin and potential fate of the cosmos.With shoulder-length hair, beads, bracelets and a propensity to show up for big events in a blue astronaut jumpsuit, Mr. Emmart himself seems to have been beamed in from somewhere Out There. His Manhattan office is festooned with a collection of Barbies, dolls he has used in design models, which he has lugged to all corners of the world, having dressed them in regional costumes.To date, millions of planetarium visitors have watched and heard stars explode; galaxies collide; clouds of interstellar space dust glow, swirl and melt. They have zoomed over alien landscapes and pierced the mysterious dark matter that permeates space. The shows have been narrated by celebrities such as Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Whoopi Goldberg and the museum\u2019s own impresario of the sky, Neil deGrasse Tyson. The shows have been distributed to 60 different institutions in 40 countries.A very lucky viewer could lie on the floor of the planetarium on a recent slow afternoon as Mr. Emmart led a personal tour of his digital universe, pausing to appreciate craters on the moon and the dunes of Mars.Mr. Emmart\u2019s final show, \u201cEncounters in the Milky Way,\u201d which opened on June 9, traces the history and future of our own galaxy. At the end of the summer, Mr. Emmart plans to retire to Thailand. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to being in nature with the peace and quiet,\u201d he said recently.\u201cEncounters in the Milky Way,\u201d Mr. Emmart\u2019s final show at the planetarium, opened on June 9.American Museum of Natural HistoryWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29584,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29585,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29582\/revisions\/29585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}