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Helios at Bristol Cathedral
College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TJ
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BTF+, Bristol’s festival of tech, creativity and culture, is bringing Helios - a new internally illuminated sculpture of the Sun by internationally renowned Bristol-based artist Luke Jerram - to Bristol Cathedral for the very first time.
Measuring seven metres in diameter, the artwork features 72dpi detailed imagery of the Sun’s surface. At an approximate scale of 1:200 million, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 2000km of the Sun’s surface. It is very dangerous to look at the Sun directly as it can damage our eyesight, so Helios provides a safe opportunity for the public to get up close to, and inspect its extraordinarily detailed surface, including sunspots, spicules and filaments. The sculpture also features the source of the solar flares, which caused the Northern lights to be visible from the UK last year.
The installation is a fusion of solar imagery, sunlight and a specially created surround sound composition by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson.
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