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Exhibit about history of universe opens at TWOSE
A person explores Telus World of Science Edmonton's "Stardust: The Universe in You" exhibit on May 30, 2025. (Darcy Seaton / CTV News Edmonton)
Telus World of Science Edmonton's newest exhibit will offer a chance to explore the oldest parts of the universe's history when it opens on Saturday.
'Stardust: The Universe in You' covers the big bang, or the universe's birth, the creation of stars, and leading research from the James Webb Space Telescope into infrared light.
'It explores basically what is in all of us. How did all the atoms in our universe get their start? How do we go from the big bang to these complex organic molecules that we have here on the earth?' said Frank Florian, the senior manager of planetarium and space science at TWOSE.
'Science itself is always this evolving structure. As we learn new things about the universe, we have to change the way we look at things in the universe itself. So this (exhibit) here creates a bit of an eye-opening experience – and maybe creates more questions than answers.'
The exhibit's interactive features include triggering a supernova, creating a galaxy, walking through a star explosion and experimenting with infrared.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Darcy Seaton