*In this photo:* (L-r) Dr. Matt Bobrowsky, Chanel Beck, Isabella Gondola, Tyroniece Hampton-Jones, Adaeze Iwegbulam, Jaymen Morris, Galvin Pascal Mombrun, Morgan Boomer, Kenya Miller, Kaliya Garcia, and Sanaa Lemon-Siler stand at the Mercury station, one of 11 of the Voyage Scale Model Solar System exhibition stations permanently installed across the campus.

On Campus

The Voyage Solar System exhibition installed across the campus

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

A new planetary exhibition has been installed permanently on the campus of Delaware State University.

The Voyage Scale Model Solar System—eleven separate stations representing the sun, planets, and smaller solar system bodies—starts along the DSU campus road that runs along the south ends of the Administration Building and the ETV Building and continues across other parts of campus. Some DSU students point out several of the Voyage exhibition stations installed new the south end of the Admin Building.

Voyage is an accurate scale model of the solar system, with the distances and sizes of the exhibited celestial bodies represented at one ten-billionth of their actual distances and sizes in space.

Astrophysicist Dr. Matt Bobrowsky, a member of the DSU faculty, said the Voyage provides exhibition visitors with a conceptual understanding of Earth’s place in space and the nature of worlds across our Solar System. He added that it also provides an experiential learning opportunity for undergraduate non-science majors.

“It is a fascinating sculptural addition to the campus, which can be enjoyed by DSU students, faculty, and staff, as well as by visiting school groups,” Dr. Bobrowsky said. “As DSU is the first HBCU to have the Voyage exhibition, it would be appropriate to show it to any campus visitors as another aspect of what makes DSU uniqueamong HBCUs.”