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Pedro Pascal is headed to space—sort of.
The beloved actor will lend his voice to "Encounters in the Milky Way," the brand-new Hayden Planetarium Space Show opening at the American Museum of Natural History on June 9, 2025. The show marks the seventh installment in the museum’s storied Space Show series and celebrates the 25th anniversary of the iconic Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Using jaw-dropping visualizations based on real data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission (which has mapped nearly two billion stars), “Encounters in the Milky Way” takes viewers on a cosmic joyride through billions of years of galactic motion. It’s the first Hayden Space Show to explore how the Milky Way’s dynamic dance affects our solar system’s past—and its wild future.
Audiences will watch our Sun’s birth possibly triggered by the Milky Way’s clash with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, see our system drift into a supernova-cleared “local bubble” around the time humans first stood upright and fast-forward to the future, when a rogue star named Gliese 710 barrels through the Oort cloud, messing with comets like it owns the place.
Directed by Carter Emmart and produced by the museum’s award-winning science visualization team, the program also spotlights cutting-edge tools like the James Webb Space Telescope and features a brand-new immersive audio system for maximum galactic drama.
Previous Space Shows have featured narrators such as Tom Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg and Neil deGrasse Tyson, but this one might be the most action-packed yet. Whether you’re a space buff, a Pascal stan or just want to kick back and stargaze without leaving the planet, this one’s worth orbiting your summer plans around.
Tickets will soon be available on the museum’s website.