Hayden Planetarium
Rose Center for Earth and Space
The Rose Center's Scales of the Universe walkway hugs the glass walls of the Rose Center and features differently scaled models that illustrate the relative size of cosmic and human objects, from galaxies, stars and planets, to the human brain and nucleus of the smallest atom. The 400-foot long walkway ingeniously uses the Hayden Sphere for size comparison.One of my Asterionella images is used to show the scale of things at 0.0001. And here are pictures of that very image in place, with my suitably impressed sister and nephew striking a pose.
So, next time you are in NYC . . .
Of course, they have the science all wrong. Asterionella is NOT single-celled and it really doesn't have a skeleton, silica or otherwise!
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