Welcome to the Big Bang Observatory! Here, you can explore what your ancestors couldn't. In the past, the sky was off limits to the ancient people. The Mesopotamian people stared in wonder at the evening sky. When the Romans gazed upon the stars in Uranus, their personified heaven, they felt their gods among them. Venus, the goddess of love and beauty graced her ruler, Jupiter, who was a bit of a lady's man. He often sent his love letters through the gods' messenger, Mercurius. His nimble feet carried messages through the sky and over the water, where Neptune rules. Naturally, Neptune was fond of Saturn, who served the Romans as their god of agriculture. While Saturn enjoyed tilling the ground with plows and reaping a good harvest, Mars preferred the sound of swords and the booty of war. While these gods were immortal, the Romans knew that their time on Earth was brief and they would soon retire to the Underworld, where Pluto resides. The world and under the world was all they could ever know. The sky was something they could only see.

The Mesopotamian or Roman people never got to search the unknown sky, like you can at the Big Bang Observatory. Here, you can learn what your ancestors could not understand, but attempted to explain though their stories. Although the planets were named after ancient Roman gods, no ancient Roman man ever got to walk on the moon, the distant wonder they once stared at in the sky. Now, we can explore these, once, untouchable objects of desire in our sky. In the Big Bang Observatory, you can explore the mysterious world of wonder at the very tips of your fingers. So Welcome! Peek through our telescope and type on our computer. We want you to get to know the "space-know-it-all" Professor Starling and jump into our time machine, or hitch a ride on a fired up comet. And if you are truly a thrillseeker, you might find an exciting adventure by visiting a planet in our solar system via the incredible Big Bang Spaceship. Whatever you wish to do, thoroughly explore space in the Big Bang Ovservatory.