signal_and_rizz on Nostr: “Searching for Goldilocks is a sculpture by Angela Palmer that is made up of 18 ...

“Searching for Goldilocks is a sculpture by Angela Palmer that is made up of 18 sheets of engraved glass representing the first 46 worlds identified by NASA’s Kepler Observatory as Goldilocks planets. Goldilocks planets are those that are similar to Earth in that they can support life—not too hot, not too cold, just right. While the mission of the Kepler Observatory is to search for these types of planets, Palmer’s mission was to capture the spirit of that search in a sculpture. Each sheet of glass represents a slice of space 250 light-years thick and the engraved circles represent the stars within that region of space. Together, the pieces capture the beauty and enormity of the universe.”