Have you heard, it's in the stars

I there some momentous astronomical event happening that I'm not aware of? Mission to Mars is on telly right now. RMIT Project Space in Melbourne has just opened a show called The Mars Project ("Tapping into primordial hopes and fears, the dream to make Mars a life-sustaining planet possibly connects us to our past more than it does to our future"), followed by - hey!

Meanwhile in Pittsburgh, the 55th Carnegie International has just opened, the theme: Life on Mars ("The question, "Is there life on Mars?" is a rhetorical one, posed in the face of a world in which increasingly accelerating global events...")

The Barbican Art Gallery in London is showing the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art ("...presents contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials.") Well did you ever?