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  ColorFest Check out ColorFest, a two-month extravaganza celebrating color at the museum from July 1 to September 5. 
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Spectra From Space An introduction to spectra and to the space-based telescopes. The site includes a number of hands-on activities.
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Bob Miller's Light Walk Artist Bob Miller's "Light Walk" at the Exploratorium will change the way you look at light, shadow, and images.
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 Seeing What do you really know about what you see?
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Fading Dot If you stare at this dot, for few moments it disappears. INTERACTIVE
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Squirming Palm Can you make your palm squirm? INTERACTIVE
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Color Your Judgment Can your eyes fool your nose? Find out with this experiment. INTERACTIVE
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Changing Illusions Tease your brain with five interactive illusions. You won't believe your eyes. INTERACTIVE
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Colored Shadows See how many colors you can make with only red, green, and blue bulbs. HANDS-ON
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Build Your Own Spectroscope Build your own spectroscope, a device to analyze the spectrum of light. HANDS-ON
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Café Wall Illusion Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion. INTERACTIVE
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Glue Stick Sunset Why is the sky blue? That's a sticky question. HANDS-ON
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Mix-n-Match You can mix just three colors of light to make over 16 million different colors! INTERACTIVE
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Postcard Exhibits Four exhibits small enough to fit on postcards. INTERACTIVE
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Afterimage A flash of light prints a lingering image in your eye. HANDS-ON
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Bird in a Cage See colors that aren't really there. INTERACTIVE
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Using UV Beads Study ultraviolet radiation from the sun and other sources using UV beads. HANDS-ON
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Soap Film Painting A soap film becomes an ever-changing work of art. HANDS-ON
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The Three Little Pig(ments) Investigate how light and color interact by aligning three colored and one black overhead transparencies. HANDS-ON
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Aurora Darkening polar skies often bring beautiful light displays. ARTICLE
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