Astronomia: Solar Circus

You are here.

Circling Sol, our sun, a modest star in middle age.

At the center of a circus where planets juggle moons,

dwarf planets play at being invisible

and asteroids fizz with the magic of water.

Here are things you can see. And things that reveal themselves

in wavelengths we cannot see. 

Our once-and-future sun. 

The eight planets.

Our disappearing moon.

Using aluminum prints, neon, LED lights and a lot of help

from both NASA and the European Space Agency,

artist Spurlock and writer John Martin Tarrat illuminate a neighborhood

alive with quirks and wonders.