The light of a star can take a few minutes to thousands of years to reach us. Telescopes thus become real time machines.
When we observe the starslet’s see, in reality, their past. Their light In fact, it can take a few minutes up to billions of years, in the case of the farthest stars, to get to us. This is how telescopes they become real “Time machines“, As an exhibition conceived by Inif (National Astrophysics Institute) and designed by Pleiadi, of which Evidence Network It is medium partner.
The path of the exhibition. There exhibition is built as a path which, following the light, starts from the Solar System and then moves away more and more in space and time up to get to the primordial universe. The Satellite Planck di ESA has in fact made a map of the cosmic microwave background radiation, or the oldest light of the universe: it dates back to 380 thousand years after the Big Bang.
More powerful telescopes. The aim of the initiative is to bring adults and children closer to a dissemination project that allows the visitor to go between nebulary and galaxies. All images that we have obtained thanks to development of increasingly precise and powerful telescopesthanks to which scientists “scrutinize the sky and explore the universe in periods far from ours”, explains Roberto Ragazzoni, president of Inif. “It is mainly an exhibition on beauty of astronomy. It turns to the boys, imagining them one day a Building the machines of the futurebut also to adults who perhaps feel intimidated when it comes to astrophysics ».
Installations and events. To do this, he also uses interactive installations Where you can, for example, play with gravity that a black hole exerts on different masses, experiment with the reflection and refraction of light, listen to the real sounds of the cosmos from a sort of jukebox. In addition to the exposure they are planned A series of eventsincluding the meeting with the Nobel Prize for Physics Michel Mayor who discovered the first exoplanet, an evening dedicated to music and a Poetry Slam (a competition between poets), because astrophysics can also inspire art.
Where and when. The exhibition will be open until June 2, 2025 At Ogr Torino, who created it, with the contribution of the Astrophysical Inf-Observatory of Turin, Infini.to Planetario of Turin-Museum of astronomy and the “Attilio Ferrari” space and the Mu-Ch Museum of Chemistry.
