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Step outside on most clear nights, gaze upward, and you’ll probably see him. Orion, the great Greek hunter, anchoring our night. Likely, if you were taught to find this constellation, you focused on the belt: three stars. Dig a little deeper, and you might learn that The Orion Project, a mid-twentieth century space program, was developed to see if humans could be propelled into space — through a series of atomic explosions.

But really, it’s the three that matters, those three stars on the belt. You may well envision them when you first heard the word in the context of this exhibition. And how …