May 2009

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, I've started thinking about the lazy hazy dog days of summer. And when our videographer Zachary emailed me about this really interesting “sunset” phenomenon called the Manhattan Solstice or “Manhattanhenge” as it’s been dubbed by the head of the Hayden Planetarium here, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was intrigued.