{"id":7082,"date":"2014-03-25T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2014-03-25T22:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T22:29:47","slug":"heavens-carousel-artwork-unveiled-at-hubble-telescope-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7082","title":{"rendered":"“Heaven’s Carousel” artwork unveiled at Hubble telescope conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

A press release from\u00a0ESA\/Hubble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

New artwork unveiled at the Science with
\nthe Hubble Space Telescope IV conference\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference. The event celebrated the history of Hubble\u2019s extraordinary achievements, and looked to the future at what might yet be achieved and how the James Webb Space Telescope will build on our knowledge of the Universe. As part of this celebration artist Tim Otto Roth revealed a new artwork, Heaven\u2019s Carousel, inspired by Hubble\u2019s work on the accelerating expansion of the Universe.<\/p>\n

\"Heaven's
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\nCredit:\u00a0NASA<\/a>,\u00a0ESA<\/a>, and Pam Jeffries<\/em>
\n<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The “new astronomy-inspired art installation premiered in Rome at the\u00a0Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV<\/a>\u00a0conference. \u00a0<\/em>The installation, named\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Carousel<\/a>, links together the fields of art, music and astronomy. Conceptualised and designed by German artist and composer\u00a0Tim Otto Roth<\/a>, the work is inspired by novel work on the accelerating expansion of the Universe by Nobel laureate Adam Riess (STScl), Greek cosmology and Renaissance astronomers. “<\/em><\/p>\n

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The artwork takes the form of a rotating carousel, with 36 illuminated spherical loudspeakers mounted on long strings and illustrates some of Hubble\u2019s key findings and the physical processes that underpin Hubble\u2019s work\u00a0[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing inside the installation is like being inside a sound Universe,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says artist\u00a0Tim Otto Roth<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cWhen you look up at the night sky you see it in black and white, but in reality it is full of colours, colours which are too faint to be perceived by the eye’s colour receptors. It is the most dominant of these colours that I have translated into sound as part of the\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Carousel<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In representing the Universe in this way\u00a0Heaven\u2019s Carousel<\/em>\u00a0allows the audience to experience phenomena such as the\u00a0Doppler effect<\/a>\u00a0[2]<\/a>. This phenomenon has been key to many of the discoveries discussed at the\u00a0conference<\/a>\u00a0as it lets us know just how fast the galaxies observed by Hubble are moving away from or towards us. This can be experienced within the sound installation where at the centre of the installation there is no significant effect, but as the visitor moves outwards the frequencies start to oscillate dramatically and weave into a mesmerising sound tapestry.<\/p>\n

During the 25-minute sound performance the other phenomena and processes that inspired the piece become evident. For example the progress from the high pitched and bright blue tones that represent the beginning of the Universe to the deep tones of red and low frequency sounds that illustrate what we observe in the distant Universe with Hubble today.<\/p>\n

The premiere on Monday 17 March was very well attended and speeches were given by Tim Otto Roth and Adam Reiss, Nobel Prize winner and advisor to the artist, whose work was crucial to showing that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating.<\/p>\n

\"Heaven\u2019s
\nClick to Enlarge<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The immersive installation shows another way that Hubble has inspired new thinking over its 24 years in orbit. It provided the perfect accompaniment to the conference, which involved four days of talks from fields as broad as dark energy, the Hubble Frontier Fields, exoplanet research and Solar System research, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we celebrate Hubble’s splendid 24 years in orbit\u201d<\/em>\u00a0says\u00a0ESA<\/a>\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope project scientist Antonella Nota.\u00a0\u201cWe are left to marvel at the accomplishments humanity can achieve when there is collaboration between communities. On this occasion, we celebrate the partnership between\u00a0NASA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ESA<\/a>\u00a0which led to the creation of Hubble. A partnership which set the foundation for the\u00a0James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>\u00a0and many more ventures to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hubble has allowed us to peer into the ancient Universe, to find planets outside the Solar System, to map the dark matter that lurks within galaxy clusters and to say that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. In the words of John Grunsfeld,\u00a0NASA<\/a>\u00a0Associate Administrator and former astronaut, who has visited Hubble on three occasions:<\/p>\n

\u201cHubble has taken us further than we knew possible towards answering the biggest questions humanity has ever thought to ask: Where did we come from? Where are we going? And, are we alone?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As part of the conference John Grunsfeld gave a talk on his experience of the Hubble service missions. These missions not only kept Hubble alive, but have also given Hubble a new lease of life through the installation of the wide-field camera, WFC3, on this last mission. This new camera is part of the reason that Hubble is still in constant use and a major theme of the conference was where Hubble will take us next. It is clear that, even with the James Webb Space Telescope on the horizon, Hubble still has a great deal left to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A press release from\u00a0ESA\/Hubble: New artwork unveiled at the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference\u00a0 Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference. The event celebrated the history of Hubble\u2019s extraordinary achievements, and looked to the … Continue reading “Heaven’s Carousel” artwork unveiled at Hubble telescope conference<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Qe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10457,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10457","url_meta":{"origin":7082,"position":0},"title":"Hubble telescope celebrates 25 years in space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope, a beautiful image of the Westerlund 2 star cluster taken by the orbital observatory has been released:\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years of Unveiling the Universe - HubbleSite. 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