Arts Case Study

The SUN 2023

1 May 2023

• Public Art

In September 2023 the Orkney International Science Festival hosted SUN, a touring art and science collaboration between Solar Physicist Professor Robert Walsh and British artist Alex Rinser at St Magnus Cathedral. The installation is a huge 1:200,000,000 scale represtation of our closest star, projecting real Solar data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

See more here: uclan.ac.uk/research/institutes/jhi/solar-physics/sun-exhibition#:~:text=SUN%20is%20realised%20as%20a,%C2%B0%20at%20such%20a%20scale.