Eric Pan - Meeting of the Comets

// Station 1 // Lore This lilting lullaby is a folk tale about the occasional bright starbursts in the sky towards the direction of the Hyades 🌌. It is said that when the Pleiades were still gathering their youthful formation – Asterope and Sterope constituting the core at the time – two far-flung comets fell in love. Their orbits, differing wildly in origin, began to exert a dynamic pull on each other, each with unique particle-cloud trails in tow. Over millions of years, a mutual encirclement gradually drew closer and closer ... until particles from their wake began to collide each time they met 🎇. Their dance will continue through the next seventy epochs, alternating between...View all