Enjoy a free public lecture by Dr. Caitlin Witt, followed by family activities and telescope observing at Dearborn Observatory! Come see electrified gasses through light-splitting glasses or take home your own crafted constellation! Free event but please register at link below.

Tuning into the Cosmic Symphony:
Pulsar Timing, the Gravitational Wave Background, and Beyond
In the cosmic symphony of gravitational waves, supermassive black hole binaries provide the bass notes. However, when these colossal duos play all at once, their individual melodies overlap into an indistinct rumble. After 15 years of effort, astronomers announced last summer that they have at last found evidence for this background hum of gravitational waves using an observatory that spans our entire Milky Way galaxy. Tune in with us to hear more about gravitational wave symphonies, monstrous black holes, colliding galaxies, dead stars, and more!

Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology considers how artists use strategies of kinship, healing, and restorative intervention to foster a deeper awareness of our interconnectedness with the earth. This exhibition turns to an intergenerational group of eighteen artists and collectives to engage with the overlapping worldwide crises of our time.

The works on view in Actions for the Earth foreground reciprocity and exchange, offering healing practices of regeneration, care, and nurture. Simple actions suggest new ways to dream, listen, and remember, and in doing so reconnect to ourselves and the earth as well as one another. 

Open from January 26 - July 7