Passport to the Universe

Now showing at AMNH Exhibitions, *Passport to the Universe* situates visitors inside contemporary astronomy, translating research on stars, galaxies, and deep time into a guided, room-scale presentation. It draws on imagery and data produced by working observatories rather than imagined scenery, and it frames those visuals with plainspoken scientific context. In New York City, where the museum has long shaped public science education, the show reads as part of that civic tradition. Its one limitation is that the narrative occasionally compresses debate into certainty, a familiar trade-off in popular science.