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A Celebration of Light
Welcome to the Luminarium, a sanctuary for contemplating light in all its forms — from the photons that traveled 8 minutes from our sun to illuminate this moment, to the candle flames that have companioned humanity through countless dark nights.
Today is Day 146 of the year. Light continues its eternal journey at 299,792,458 meters per second.
Curtains of color at the poles
How it works: Solar wind exciting atmospheric gases
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first."
The Spectrum — Journey through violet to red, each color a different wavelength of electromagnetic radiation
Light Sources — From bioluminescent creatures to nuclear fusion in stars
Historic Experiments — The discoveries that revealed light's nature
Pioneers — From Ibn al-Haytham to Nobel laureates
Symbolism — Light as metaphor across cultures
Meditate — Contemplations on light with a seed word