Featuring 13 high-quality images of the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, the exhibit showcases images taken by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s James Webb Space Telescope. "This is truly just like Hubble (telescope) 25 years ago," said UO professor of astronomy Scott Fisher, who curated the exhibit. "We are at the beginning of a brand new kind of era of astronomy."
“This exhibit is unique because I think that we… everybody looks up at the night sky and sees the stars are laid before us,” said Lexie Briggs. “But I think that having these images and being able to get close to them and feel part of a larger sort of cosmos is really, really cool.”
If you are visiting the University of Oregon campus to tour the school, visit a student, cheer on sports, attend a lecture or make a presentation, plan to see as much as possible and enjoy your time!
The exhibit highlights innovations associated with the history of many different Tribal groups to portray the rich diversity of Native peoples living here in Oregon. It is traveling to rural libraries throughout the state of Oregon as part of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s bilingual Museum Adventures program.
The Cook Memorial Library has once again partnered with the MNCH to host a new traveling summer exhibit, Native Innovation: a celebration of the culture, history, and unique engineering of Oregon’s First Nations.
The oldest shoes that researchers have directly dated are a pair of 10,400-year-old sandals recovered from Fort Rock Cave in central Oregon, according to Thomas Connolly. Fossilized footprints suggest our ancestors may have worn them much earlier than that.
The spike-tooth salmon is said to have lived around five million years ago, when the Earth’s climate was warmer, the rivers of the Pacific Northwest were deeper, and microbes were plentiful.
A prized plant for regional Native Americans has been carefully cultivated for more than 3,500 years. Camas is a First Foods staple for Native Americans, who traditionally baked the bulbs in earthen ovens.
For many years, archaeologists thought the first humans to set foot in the Americas did so around 13,000 years ago. But more recently, new findings have challenged that theory, pushing the timeline back even further.
