Where the earth meets the sky

James Turrell: you who look

Powers of ten, updated

The Universe in motion

Esteban Cabeza de Baca’s time travels

The sights of space: a voyage to spectacular alien worlds

In the remote desert, an awe-inspiring artwork collapses time and space

Star Axis is an artwork of extraordinary ambition. For half a century, the US land artist Charles Ross has been building this ‘granite pyramid’ in a remote stretch of desert in New Mexico. The structure’s decades in the making, however, are just a blink in the timescale it aims to capture. The unique observatory puts 26,000 years of........

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