Session 6: Reality / Fiction

The International Dark Sky Places (IDSP) Program was founded in 2001 to encourage communities, parks, and protected areas around the world to preserve and protect dark sites through responsible lighting policies and public education. Light pollution is a macroscopic phenomenon which will transform the history of astronomy for the next generations. The sky has been gradually re-shaped by luminous objects set in orbit in the last century: satellites, planes, artifacts. How will our representation of the sky change as humans populate it with more and more luminous artifacts?

Friday, November 22, 7:30 – 9pm
Luminous artifacts in the Universe: Reality or Fiction
Lecture with Kevin B. Marvel, American Astronomical Society

Saturday, November 23, 2 – 3:30pm
Re-representing the Celestial
A movement workshop with physics and astronomy professor Gregory Mack
Presented in partnership with the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS); Note: The event will take place in the National Academy of Science’s Great Hall.