Journey Through the TRAPPIST-1 Star System
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Sep 27, 2024 4pm - 6pm
Location
The Stein Luminary is located on the Boise State campus in the Center for Visual Arts. Paid parking is available across the street in the Brady Garage.
Details
This collaborative Boise State project includes the departments of music, art, design, and visual studies and physics and faculty members Brian Jackson, Ryan Donahue and Eric Alexander. Music composed by Boise State music composition students and interactive visuals by Donahue, a visiting professor of graphic design, will take visitors on an aural and visual journey inspired by TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star located about 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It’s notable for having a system of seven Earth-sized exoplanets in its orbit. These planets, discovered in 2016, are of particular interest because they lie in the star’s habitable zone where conditions might allow water to exist on their surfaces – hinting at a potential to host life. Student composers created movements representing the planets, then performed and recorded their pieces with help from community musicians.
