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Astronomy
Angela Palmer recreated an area of space using Nasa data for the Kepler mission for her sculpture, Searching for Goldilocks, now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, USA. The sculpture featured in her solo exhibition Life Lines (see above for catalogue link). The installation is a collaboration with Dr Chris Lintott, astrophysicist and Dr Alexy Karenowska, physicist, both from Oxford University. The artist hand engraved the details captured by the telescope on 18 sheets of glass, each representing 250 light years from Earth.
Searching for Goldilocks in a box
Hand engraved on glass using an image taken from the Kepler telescope
Large Searching for Goldilocks
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington Hand engraved on glass using an image taken from the Kepler telescope
Angela Palmer with her sculpture
At the Smithsonian Art & Space Museum, Washington Credit: Image by Eric Long, Smithsonian Institution
Searching for Goldilocks detail
Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, Washington Hand engraved on glass using an image taken from the Kepler telescope
Kepler Field of View (portrait)
Credit: Carter Roberts for NASA
Location of the area charted by the Kepler Telescope Image courtesy of NASA
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