When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Neil deGrasse Tyson—Director of the Hayden Planetarium and narrator of Dark Universe, the Museum's new Space Show—reads Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."

In stunningly detailed scenes based on authentic scientific data—including a NASA probe's breathtaking plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere and novel visualizations of unobservable dark matter—Dark Universe explores this new age of cosmic discovery and reveals the mysteries that have been brought to light so far. For more information, visit amnh.org/dark-universe.