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Hancock Building certainly [blank] up to its name. The [blank] is derived from the Latin word "lucere", meaning "to shine", and the artwork's 3,115 lights [blank] a scale map of the stars that shine in the night sky. The 13-foot artwork [blank] thousands of glass bulbs, all fed light through blue illuminating fibre-optic lines. The sculpture, created by English artist Wolfgang Buttress with the help of astrophysicist Dr. Daniel Bayliss, represents a 3D map of all the stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are able to be visible with the naked eye.

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Hancock Building certainly lives up to its name. The title is derived from the Latin word "lucere", meaning "to shine", and the artwork's 3,115 lights depict a scale map of the stars that shine in the night sky. The 13-foot artwork contains thousands of glass bulbs, all fed light through blue illuminating fibre-optic lines. The sculpture, created by English artist Wolfgang Buttress with the help of astrophysicist Dr. Daniel Bayliss, represents a 3D map of all the stars in the Northern Hemisphere that are able to be visible with the naked eye.
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