Astronomy picture o' the day

[Daddyo]

Here's an update to the last video of the Milky Way's black hole star orbits. Incredibly amazing zoom!

http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/pres ... 08_ATV.m4v

All the videos on this page are worth seeing:
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/pres ... 46-08.html

[SweatyPyro]

17,800 Light Years, yes?

[Daddyo]

Sounds close, not sure, my lightstick wasn't really of sufficient length

[Mor.Evil-1]

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... ?GT1=43001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thought this was interesting. . .

[Daddyo]

It looks too scary to be an astronaut...

If you look at the gap between those things, looking down at the earth, it seems like they're 100 miles apart. So maybe not all that bad? As long as a trusty computer is tracking them eh?

Anyone else find it a bit coincidental that the first time ever accidental collison between two satellites included a dead Russian satellite hitting an American one right over Russia (in Russian radar for analysis)? I think it was still coincidental, but the odds are so much lower to have occured in that area.

[Daddyo]

Check out this video of a physics model of the universe condensing from the big bang to galaxy formation. Has you flying through it as it's condensing http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/g ... cmovie.jpg

[Avi]

Check out this video of a physics model of the universe condensing from the big bang to galaxy formation. Has you flying through it as it's condensing http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/g ... cmovie.jpg

Wow, I've never seen a .jpg video before...


...and still haven't.

[Daddyo]

Arg, click on that same picture here http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/gotpm/

Look at it a few times, deep into the distance. It starts out random, and the simulated particles start clumping up from gravity. The only 'artistic' thing done is to change the color band over time, maybe to represent the temperature of the universe. I've done simulations like this for a while but never so many particles, maybe 15 thousand particles where here they had 134 million, so never looked like this.

[SweatyPyro]

Oh my, the video did not load.

[Avi]

That's okay...Daddyo isn't very successful at most of the things he attempts, so let's not make a big deal out of it.

[Daddyo]

Haha, try right clicking on picture and save target as... Then open with windows media player, i think quicktime dont worky with it

[SweatyPyro]

Daddyo, my computer science teacher told me: "If your program is released and it doesn't work, then you will lose a lot of money"

I'd like to let you know.

(Only kidding, did as you said sir.)

[Daddyo]

That's true unless it's a government contract hehe

[Daddyo]

Swing by here Sunday for something I'm going to put up for the day only.

[data_ghost]

Gotcha