Astro Viz

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Must-see cutting edge visualizations of astronomical and space phenomena.

26,000 light year zoom into the heart of the MW. The speeds and orbits of stars were used to calculate the mass of the central object, a black hole of 4 million solar masses. Images from ESO.

What you'd see if you survived the flight into a black hole, courtesy of the Black Hole Flight Simulator program, described by its creator Professor Andrew Hamilton. See the New York Times article about his work on... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/28/science/28prof.html

This video is modeled in the classic tradition of P.T. Barnum, offering a collection of oddities for your viewing pleasure. So enter the Curiosity Shop for a compilation of facts and beautiful moon images taken by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn since 2004, set to Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 II. Adagio. This video is produced in honor of the recent Cassini Spacecraft Mission extension through September 2017. Take a gander at Gigantic Titan to your left. Feel free to ogle bright Enceladus to your right, reflecting close to 100 percent of the light that hits its surface. Don't be afraid to eyeball Mimas and her craters.

A vivid look at the future of our Milky Way in an ultra high-end computer simulation of spiral galaxies colliding. Collisions and mergers are central to galaxy evolution, from the earliest dwarf galaxies that formed to the familiar galaxies we see today. These collisions in action will be targets for the James Webb Telescope. Astronomers hope to understand how the shape, structure and chemical content of galaxies change over the sweep of cosmic history.