New Wardlaw exhibition seeks answers from the great beyond | University of St Andrews news

A Dalek, a set of original sketches by Scottish science-fiction writer Iain M. Banks, and a handwritten inscription by Galileo are among items on display in a new exhibition in St Andrews that is out of this world.

Alien Worlds at the University of St Andrews’ Wardlaw Museum explores exoplanets – planets that our outside our Solar System – and how they have been understood, dreamt of and imagined by scientists, musicians, artists and writers for centuries.

Alien Worlds invites visitors to get involved directly in investigating exoplanets by contributing their own creativity, asking them to finish a science-fiction story, create their own exoplanet to be displayed through the portholes of the exhibition’s “Command Centre”, or travel in their own imagination by reading a piece of science-fiction or listening to a piece of music that imagines an exoplanet.

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