A heavenly body is coming to Brooklyn-and no, we’re not talking about another supermodel’s visit to Williamsburg.
Touching down in Brooklyn Bridge Park during the World Science Festival, May 28 to June 1, is a scale model of the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which, come to think of it, sounds like a supermodel.
A spacecraft named Rosetta is slated to rendezvous with the comet this summer after the comet’s 3.7 billion-mile journey, but you can take a subway to see the Brooklyn model, which is one-thousandth the size of the real thing.
A marriage of NASA and architecture, the festival’s comet has a steel nucleus and a tail made of 450 cubic feet of water and a complex system of misters, all lit up from the inside using 600 watts of high-output LEDs.
See it glow Wednesday night through the festival’s end. Details at worldsciencefestival.com.