Lightbox Gallery Talk: Seeing the Universe in Color with the WorldWide Telescope

Throughout the Cambridge Science Festival (April 15–24), join us each day in the Lightbox Gallery at 12:30pm to explore the science of light, looking, and conservation.

About today’s program:
Alyssa Goodman, the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard, will take visitors on a tour of the night sky and of the universe around them, using a program called the WorldWide Telescope. During the presentation, visitors will be asked for destinations—in the universe or in the electromagnetic spectrum—and Goodman will explain the chosen object’s or color’s significance to astrophysics. Desktop and browser-based versions of the WorldWide Telescope are available for free, at http://worldwidetelescope.org.

Can’t make it to the gallery talk? An interactive project related to the theme discussed in the talk will be on view all that day in the Lightbox Gallery.

This event will take place in the Lightbox Gallery, Level 5.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.