Explore all things out of this world at Bryant Park! Meet astronomy educators as you peruse a scale model of the solar system and hop inside a planetarium dome, design and test your own balloon rockets, and craft a galaxy with oil pastels too.
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Build a Balloon Rocket
Blue deck, 9:30am-noon
Using simple materials like a balloon, plastic straw, and string, see how air rushes out the balloon and launches the balloon forward. This motion is called thrust. Experiment with different sizes of balloons, string materials, and launch angles
Drop-in Crafts
Overlook, 9:30am-noon
Visualize the deep colors, celestial swirls, and dark spaces of the Milky Way Galaxy. Using black paper and cray pas, create a galaxy drawing that is out of this world!
To enter Overlook, the second-story indoor pavilion looking over the rink, find the staircase near the southeast corner of the rink. Outdoor, unattended stroller parking will be available nearby.
Inflatable Planetarium
Overlook, 10am-noon
A planetarium is a dome-shaped room where you can go see images of the night sky. That Planetarium Guy brings an inflatable sky to Bryant Park! Step inside the planetarium and take a tour of the cosmos; see stars, constellations, visible planets, the sun, and moon.
Stroll through the Solar System
Meet at the blue deck, 10am-noon
Do you know how big the solar system is? Or how far away planet earth is from the other planets? Or what planet is inhabited by robots?
Astronomer Brian Levine has created a scale model of the solar system you can stroll through in Bryant Park. Pick up your Solar System passport at the northwest corner of the blue deck and write down a fact or draw a picture at each stop on your Solar System stroll.
