Exhibitions at the Science Center
Spark your imagination and indulge your curiosity
in Chabot's interactive and hands-on exhibitions. Be sure to visit
"Beyond Blastoff: Surviving in Space" and take your photo
in the weightlessness of space. Train like an astronaut or
experience what it's like to perform tasks on a space walk. Tour the
planets (including Pluto) in Solar Go Round and make sure
to take photo in our Mercury Transport Capsule on your way to the
Moon Odyssey exhibition.
Don't Miss: Beyond Blastoff: Surviving in Space, Moon
Rock and Mercury Transport Capsule in Moon Odyssey.
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Get a glimpse into the life of an astronaut,
and experience the mixture of exhilaration, adventure, and confinement that
is living and working in space. See real spacesuits, spacecraft, and astronaut
food. Try out astronaut exercise gear and space tools, and picture yourself
in a weightless environment. Learn how astronauts cope with the physical
and mental challenges of weightlessness, isolation, and a grueling workload.
A View to the Stars
Since 1883, countless visitors have gazed through the Chabot telescopes
at the wonders of the night sky. Chabot Observatories: A View to the
Stars, explores the history of the Chabot Observatories and how its
historic telescopes continue to be used today. Daytime visitors can virtually
operate a telescope, experiment with mirrors and lenses to understand
how telescopes create images of distant objects, and travel though more
than a century of Chabot's history via multimedia kiosks, historical images,
and artifact displays.
Chabot's original location was in Oakland's Lafayette Square
Chabot's observatory domes glow against the San Francisco skyline. (Photo
by Carter Roberts)
Take a journey from our Sun to the farthest reaches of the cosmos! Along
the way, you'll see where stars are born, how they die, meet nebulae of
all kinds, and travel to distant galaxies. Experience the Origins Theater;
crawl into a black hole; see what happens when galaxies collide; and view
stunning space images!
Photo by Dan Burkhart
Visible and invisible waves are all around us. Waves ripple in water, a
vibrating guitar string, or a wriggling Slinky; sound waves are heard in
the form of speech, music, or a barking dog. Energy radiates from stars
as electromagnetic waves.
Suspended above Chabot’s main lobby, Reuben
Margolin’s large-scale kinetic sculpture will captivate visitors with
its fluid movement. The Wave invites contemplation from a variety
of perspectives: as a mesmerizing kinetic sculpture; as a visualization
of the complexities of wave motion and related scientific and
mathematical concepts; and as an intricate and beautiful mechanical
device.
Kinetic artist Reuben Margolin’s work
combines the logic of mathematics with inspiration drawn from the beauty
and patterns of nature. His work has also been shown at the
Exploratorium, the Aquarium of the Pacific, and Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts.
For more information on the artist’s work, go to
reubenmargolin.com
Take a simulated Moon-walk, try on a space helmet, climb into a Mercury
capsule, and land a lunar module!
Chabot's new hands-on exhibit explores legends and science fiction about
the Moon; the Space Race and the Moon landings; and the Earth-Moon system.
Learn what the Moon is made of, how it affects the Earth, what causes Moon
phases, gravity on the Moon, and more. You can even take a look at an ancient
piece of the Moon up close! The exhibit includes space artifacts and replicas,
from Sputnik and Mercury to Gemini and Apollo.
 Take
a tour of the Solar System, from the radiant Sun and the ringed planet
Saturn, to giant Jupiter and far-away Pluto. Discover what makes the
planets go round, then design a solar system and launch your planets
into orbit. Find out how rocks from outer space can change a planet's
surface and climate, then try making
 craters
yourself. Hunt for signs of water on other planets, find out about the
weather on Mars and Titan, and learn how telescopes and robotic
spacecraft are helping us explore our planetary neighbors.
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