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The Hayden Planetarium is a public planetarium located within the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and is part of the American Museum of Natural History, at Central Park West, New York City. The top half of the Hayden Sphere houses the Star Theater which uses high-resolution fulldome video to project "space shows". The bottom half of the Sphere is the Big Bang Theater which depicts the birth of the universe in a 4-minute documentary.

The Hayden Planetarium was founded in 1935 through a $650,000 loan from the Reconstruction Fincnace Corportation and a $150,000 donation from Charles Hayden. It is intended to give the public "a more lively and sincere appreciation of the magnitude of the universe ... and for the wonderful things which are daily occuring in the universe."

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Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City
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