Astronomy teams up with art to illuminate cosmos at exhibition

At an exhibition in the heart of China's capital, Beijing, cosmic data becomes tangible art.

Navigating through 10 billion light years with the slide of a finger, confronting the dense, tangled web of space debris now circling the Earth, and listening to music made from data collected by satellites orbiting in space, are all options at the exhibition Cosmos Archaeology: Explorations in Time and Space, which opened to the public on July 3 in the National Museum of China. Here, visitors can discover and explore new gateways to the universe.

Jointly hosted by the museum, the Embassy of Switzerland in China, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, or EPFL, the exhibition is one of a series of events to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Switzerland.