Chris Lintott’s Universe

October 19th, 2006

Exciting movies

Posted by chrislintott in Images

Having publicised the 2mass survey earlier in the month, I can’t resist posting links to a couple of other nice movies which illustrate our place in space.

The first starts off by flying toward Orion, past some of the galaxy’s highlights before heading to the Virgo cluster via M81 and M82 (a galaxy close to my heart as I’m working on a paper about its chemistry), while the second shows the Sloan Digitial Sky Survey’s half-a-million or so galaxies in all their glory. (The strange shape is because of where astronomers have chosen to look on the sky, rather than a real future of the Universe).

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  1. Bunny Burton-Bradford said,

    on October 19th, 2006 at 1:59 pm

    Afternoon Mr Lintott -

    Thankyou for posting the video links. In a word Breathtaking!!

    Wish I’d known about the ‘Orion’ movie two weeks ago, as I was giving a talk to 11yr olds on the Milky way and our place within it - the video shows this wonderfully.

  2. Bunny Burton-Bradford said,

    on October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pm

    Is there a URL address error on the second link????

  3. chrislintott said,

    on October 19th, 2006 at 2:17 pm

    There was - it’s fixed now. Thanks

    Chris

  4. John Cave said,

    on October 20th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

    Hi Chris,
    Superb movies! I have saved them so I can view them again and again. The 2Mass and the Sloan surveys are really ground breaking in their research and into developing our understanding of the universe around us.
    John Cave.

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