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American Museum of Natural History

If you are coming to the Museum on Saturday, May 25, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.

Sunset on the World Trade Center

by Neil deGrasse Tyson on

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At 110 stories, the World Trade Center twin towers were tall enough for the Sun to set nearly two minutes later for people on the top floors than for people on the bottom floors.

Sunset on World Trade Center

Sunset on the World Trade Center.

© Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2001


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As always, but especially today, keep looking up.

-NDTyson

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