NASA’s ‘Here, There, and Everywhere’ on exhibit at main library

NASA’s “Here, There and Everywhere” exhibit at the main library includes this out-of-the-world image. (CONTRIBUTED)

HUNTSVILLE – The NASA exhibit “Here, There and Everywhere” is on display at the main branch of Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St. in Huntsville.

The exhibit will be shown through March 30 on the library’s second floor. The display “illustrates how familiar phenomena on Earth and across the universe are connected by basic physical laws,” library communications director Ann Marie Martin said.

In addition, the library will hold a companion lecture series on March 12 and 19 from 11 a.m. to noon at the main library. Members of the Von Braun Astronomical Society will discuss astrophotography (or photographing objects in the night sky), telescopes and planetary science and astrophysics in everyday life.

The main feature of the exhibit “is a series of spectacular visual comparisons that span from the human scale on Earth to some of the largest structures in the cosmos,” Martin said. The display has panels that offer examples with explanatory text that describes shadows, wind, electric discharge, bow waves and atoms in collision.

“We want to help people explore how interconnected everything in science is,” exhibit spokesperson Kimberly Arcand said. “By studying the universe, we’re often learning about important physics here on Earth and vice versa.”

A team at the Chandra X-Ray Center, affiliated with Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., designed the exhibit. The Chandra X-ray Observatory is NASA’s flagship mission for X-ray.

For more information about “Here, There and Everywhere,” visit hte.si.edu. For library information, visit hmcpl.org.