Our solar system and sun is located inside a pancake shaped galaxy. Imagine a scale model where the plane of the Milky Way is a DVD, and the central bulge is a ping pong ball glued in the center. It is this narrow plane that we see across the sky on a sufficiently dark night from Earth, from our vantage point inside it. Dust blocks much of our view. But at other wavelengths astronomers can probe the heart of our galaxy.... Read More

I found this cool area with boiling mud pools all around so I thought, why not dip an iPhone X in there? Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to retrieve any footage due to the hardened mud in the port.... Read More

I poured resin on an iPhone X to see what happens in the liquid glass like material! ... Read More

The Milky Way’s Bulge: From a Hypothesized Blob to a Remarkably Detailed Picture
David Nataf of Johns Hopkins University... Read More

In this scientific visualization, two spiral galaxies are set on a collision course. As one slices through the other, both are disrupted. The tidal forces of gravity produce long tails of material streaming away from the collision. The central regions relatively quickly fall together and merge. The visualization is based on research data from a supercomputer simulation, with stars shown in yellow and gas shown blue. Time passes at about 30 million years per second, lasting a total of about 1.5 billion years.... Read More

This visualization of a computer simulation showcases the ‘cosmic web’, the large scale structure of the universe. Each bright knot is an entire galaxy, while the purple filaments show where material exists between the galaxies. To the human eye, only the galaxies would be visible, and this visualization allows us to see the strands of material connecting the galaxies and forming the cosmic web.... Read More

This version of “Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible Light” has been rendered onto a hemispherical format (azimuthal equidistant projection) for use in planetarium domes. The black circular mask in the images denotes the edge of the hemispherical dome projection. The video is for preview purposes. Planetariums will want to download the frames and the audio files from HubbleSite: http://hubblesite.org/video/1155... Read More

This version of “Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light” has been rendered onto a hemispherical format (azimuthal equidistant projection) for use in planetarium domes. The black circular mask in the images denotes the edge of the hemispherical dome projection. The video is for preview purposes. Planetariums will want to download the frames and the audio files from HubbleSite: http://hubblesite.org/video/1154... Read More

This version of “Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared Light” has been rendered onto a hemispherical format (azimuthal equidistant projection) for use in planetarium domes. The black circular mask in the images denotes the edge of the hemispherical dome projection. The video is for preview purposes. Planetariums will want to download the frames and the audio files from the HubbleSite page: http://hubblesite.org/video/1153... Read More