Meteorite weighing 80kg put on display for first time
The rock was discovered in 1937 but has never been on general show.
An 80kg meteorite will go on display at Glasgow Science Centre as part of a new art installation.
The meteorite, nicknamed "boxhole", has been transported from the Natural History Museum in London.
Boxhole was discovered in the Australian desert in 1937, but this will be the first time it is displayed to the public.
The art installation - Sideral - is created by artists Marcela Amas and Gilberto Esparaza and will run as part of the Cryptic's Sonica Festival from October 6 - 29.
The display is set to challenge the perception that space is silent.
As iron meteorites make their journey through space, the extreme events they pass through are recorded as changes in their magnetic field a kind of log, by which scientists can understand where the meteorite has come from.
To convey this in an understandable format, the meteorite will be cradled in spidery wooden sensor-limbs that "read" the layers of the meteorite.
This sensor will then generate an eerie, modulating music, retelling the story of an almost unimaginable journey through space.