This Celeb Is Narrating The Upper West Side's New Planetarium Film

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Prolific actor Pedro Pascal is seriously in everything, and next month, he is bringing his star quality to The American Museum of Natural History with the launch of a new space show about the Milky Way.

"Encounters in the Milky Way," created by astronomers, researchers, and educators from the American Museum of Natural History and narrated by Pascal, will open on June 9 at the museum's iconic Hayden Planetarium in honor of the planetarium's 25th anniversary.

The show, funded in part by NASA, will give audiences a thrilling front-row seat to key moments in the solar system’s past and future, museum officials said.

This new show will hurdle viewers through space to explore how the movement of other stars, galaxies and celestial bodies impacted and forever changed the solar system and life on Earth, museum officials said.

Museum researchers used the latest data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission — which precision-mapped nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy — to show, for the first time, the ongoing merger between the Milky Way and another nearby galaxy.

Pascal, known for his constant presence on screen including many TV shows like The Last of Us, Game of Thrones, Narcos, and The Mandalorian, as well as films like Wonder Woman 1984, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and Gladiator II, joins a star-studded roster of people who have narrated the planetarium's previous space shows.

Previous shows at the planetarium have included "Passport to the Universe" narrated by Tom Hanks in 2000, "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?" narrated by Harrison Ford in 2002, "Cosmic Collisions" narrated by Robert Redford in 2006, "Journey to the Stars" narrated by Whoopi Goldberg in 2009, and "Worlds Beyond Earth" narrated by Lupita Nyong’o in 2020.

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