Light Exhibits
Confound your sense of sight with these visual illusions. Step inside a kaleidoscope and spin the patterned discs to trick your eye.
Explore how light reflects off objects and enters our eyes before being processed by our brains and discover how our minds can be fooled with visual illusions.
Explore Light
Join Fergus as he reveals how our sense of sight can be tricked, with the help of the light exhibits at Glasgow Science Centre's Outer Space.
More light experiments
Learn with Celine about light refraction with some light bending experiments.
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