We are Stardust

We are Stardust
video/mp4
1280 × 720
03:18

"We Are Stardust" is a commissioned artwork by the Williamson Gallery at the Art Center College of Design, and the NASA Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The focus of the project is the Spitzer Space Telescope, a sun-orbiting, infrared observatory, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory which began its mission in 2003, and officially terminated in 2009. The Spitzer Space Telescope is an infra-red temperature sensing instrument that is orbiting the sun, and trailing in the earth's orbit.

The installation consists of 2 projections on opposite walls of the exhibition space. The 'Observations image' positions all the sightings at their astronomical coordinates over a map of the universe. To cycle through the full sequence of the 36064 observations takes approximately 5 hours.