«
»

Voyage in the Milky Way

Email this post Print this post
By Barry Ritholtz - September 19th, 2009, 11:38PM

This video makes us travel through our galactic home, the Milky Way. Using the magnificent 800-million-pixel, 360-degree panoramic image featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), we move towards the Galactic Centre, then across the Galactic Plane that runs horizontally through the image.

Source:
Voyage in the Milky Way
European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere
EuropeanSouthernObservatory

http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/Videos/Galaxies/vid-32a-09_FLASH.flv.html

PERMALINK
Category: Science, Video.

Comments

Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

3 Responses to “Voyage in the Milky Way”

  1. Bruce in Tn Says:
    September 20th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

    http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/photos/2009/09/hubble-telescopes-latest-image.html

    New Hubble photos released this month. Stunning.

  2. Avl Dao Says:
    September 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    We never quite made it out of the Alpha Quadrant in that vid. A little further and we could’ve treked into Romulan Space.

    Nnetheless, it did a hyped-up hop past Minbari, Centauri and Narn space, relatively quickly.

  3. princess Says:
    September 20th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    Thanks for the video – sure makes us and our lives seem insignificant.

54 queries. 0.495 seconds.