"Oh my God, it's gigantic," said Abbey Gullens of Boston. "I didn't expect it to be ... having something stop you in your tracks is so unique for an art piece," said Violet Frizzle.

As part of Artfinity, MIT’s Festival for the arts, the MIT Dome will be transformed into an eye. Using video projections of close ups of human eyes looking skyward, the dome will be animated in an exhibition titled “Gaze to the Stars.