Upside-down and Inside-out: A Texan Tours the Southern Skies

Join Dr. James as she guides you to a giant dusty emu in the sky, a cosmic parrot with a curious red spot on its tail, and a box glistening with stellar jewels. In these upside-down skies, ancient cosmic happenings have been encoded in ways that western astronomers have just begun to understand. Could a tale of two brothers represent the supernova of 393? Did a bundle of spears in the sky herald a global catastrophe? Come learn how the night sky has never been a mere backdrop for Australia's indigenous peoples.