How Gazing Into the Night Sky is like Having a Time Machine
The farther away the star, the farther back in time you see!
- Date: November 10, 2026
- 6:30PM–8:30PM MST
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Visitor Center Theater
Grand Canyon, AZ
Hear the true story of how starlight opened a World’s Fair and illustrated how the sky is like a time machine. Every star you see tonight, you see as it looked in the past when the light left it. One of tonight’s stars might be your “birthday star”!
Dr. Amy Sayle
Astronomer in Residence, 2026Amy Sayle, PhD, is a science communicator, writer, and award-winning storyteller. As a longtime educator at Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she communicates astronomy to the public under the planetarium sky, at skywatching events, and on night paddles. During her residency, she plans to revise her young-adult novel Swallow the Sun, which is set at Grand Canyon National Park, and offer public programs focused on dark skies and on cultural astronomy.