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To the lower right are our nearest neighbors, each small galaxies themselves with their own hundreds of millions of stars. What you are seeing is the Milky Way, something that astronomers and stargazers alike have been staring up at since the beginning of time. In South Africa, with springboks and zebras eyeing him from a distance in the dark, he aimed his cameras skyward to capture the glittering night of the Southern Hemisphere. With the click of a mouse, you can zoom through the eons to peer into pale yellow gas clouds, past purple nebulae, across vast belts of stars and then into the dim light of the distant universe fading gradually to infinity. The final views show the motion of a newly-discovered gas cloud that is falling rapidly towards the central black hole.

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Zooming in to the Centre of the Milky Way (Fulldome)

Just like the Solar System, this collection of stars would be rotating and flattened out as a disk, with the Solar System embedded within it. Despite its smaller resolution, it has a number of major advantagesnotably: The full credit line to use can be found in each video caption. The Milky Way looks brightest toward the galactic center, in the direction of Sagittarius. Zooming in to the Centre of the Milky Way Fulldome.

When you look up at the night sky, assuming conditions are just right, you might just catch a glimpse of a faint, white band reaching across the heavens.

Nobody knows precisely what dark matter is, but its mass has been inferred by observations of how fast the galaxy rotates and other general behaviors. It was clear that such a survey would be quite difficult visually hopping from one area of the sky to the next—not to mention possible lapses in coverage—so this called for a more systematic approach.

Sci version that I currently use. For those interested in the specifics and tools used to make the survey, a list follows. I hope you enjoy this new view of our place in the universe as much as I have enjoyed making it. The single astounding panoramic image he has created — stitched together into a seamless 5,megapixel shot — is riveting astronomers and sky watchers worldwide.

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riainger Risinger bolted them together and had them tracking on a clock drive to the rotation of the Earth. Sciyou can see how well the alignment of Nick Risinger's MilkyWay and Celestia's stars actually works: People who want to have a brighter Milkyway and don't want to use the photographic MW background should make r bigger e.

Photopic Sky Survey

Previous topic Next topic. But just what is the Milky Way? A nice Website about the nebulosities in Orion is here http: Thanks for the non-flipping also! The Milky Way has a relatively low surface brightness due to the gases and dust that fills the galactic disk.

Would even more processing oomph have helped?

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Cheers, Fridger Last edited by t00fri on Sat, Note that also in my render. I didn't have the time, also This name is also quite ancient. Complicated by weather and moon cycles, this made for some narrow windows of opportunity which we chased through the remote areas of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon. Through it I was able to enjoy not only the wonders of the natural world but also the company of my retired father whom I was able to convince had nothing better to do.

And it is unfortunate the decision of Nick, but one needs to understnd the enormous work and cost involved in this panorama.

The final views show the motion of a newly-discovered gas cloud that is falling rapidly towards the central black hole. Yes, these are fantastic improvements.

However, the existence of these arms has been determined from observing parts of the Milky Way — as well as other galaxies in our universe — and are not the result of seeing our galaxy as a whole.

The creation of realistic views is now much enhanced. InImmanuel Kant proposed that the Milky Way was a large collection of stars held together by mutual gravity.

And these are contained within an even nickk region called the Virgo Supercluster — a mass concentration of galaxies that contains at least galaxy groups and clusters within its diameter of 33 megaparsecs million light-years. This monster is more than 4 million times the mass of our Sun.