Film & Animation

Tonight’s Sky: February 2012

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere’s skywatching events with “Tonight’s Sky.” In February, Orion strides across the night, sporting red giant Betelgeuse on his shoulder.

“Tonight’s Sky” is produced by HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a recurring show, and you can find more episodes — and other astronomy videos — at HubbleSite.org.

Visit Tonight’s Sky on HubbleSite.

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/tonights_sky

Tour of Star-Forming Region Sharpless 2-106

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A 3-D visualization of the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 (a.k.a. S106) takes us through a wonderland of stars and glowing gas.

For information on how these animations are made, try these links:

http://hubblesite.org/blog/2012/01/a-new-perspective-on-hubble-images/

http://webcast.stsci.edu/webcast/detail.xhtml?talkid=1583&parent=1

Hubble Space Telescope Observations Map

This animation starts with a flat projection of the entire sky. In this projection the sky is bisected by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope target locations over the 21 years are shown sequentially, from solar system to extragalactic. Stellar targets are spread over the entire celestial sphere; planets lie along the solar system’s ecliptic plane (S-shaped in this projection), and distant targets are at high galactic latitudes. As of July 4, 2011, Hubble has made one million science observations.