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From Goldilocks to high art to space suits: Trio of art exhibits open at National Air and Space Museum Portrait of artist Angela Palmer during the installation of her “Searching for Goldilocks” sculpture at the National Air and Space Museum.

Searching for Goldilocks is a sculpture by Angela Palmer that is made up of 18 sheets of engraved glass representing the first 46 worlds identified by NASA’s Kepler Observatory as Goldilocks planets. Goldilocks planets are those that are similar to Earth in that they can support life—not too hot, not too cold, just right. While the mission of the Kepler Observatory is to search for these types of planets, Palmer’s mission was to capture the spirit of that search in a sculpture. Each sheet of glass represents a slice of space 250 light-years thick and the engraved circles represent the stars within that region of space. Together, the pieces capture the beauty and enormity of the universe. “Searching for Goldilocks” is made possible through the support of the Smithsonian United Kingdom Charitable Trust.