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Monday, 8 September 2014

Hydrogen Clouds in the Milky Way : HD edition


No more crappy gifs. This deserves a full HD video. It's the same VLA Galactic Plane Survey data set I've been showing recently, but this time rendered from all angles at a proper resolution. 192 million data points in realtime...
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5 comments:

  1. Fred Beckhusen8 September 2014 at 16:27

    Mr. 192,000,001 got left out?  or is it 192,000,000 because you started with star zero?

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  2. Rhys Taylor8 September 2014 at 16:32

    Oops ! Caught red-handed. It's actually 192,550,083. :p

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  3. Mieke Roth9 September 2014 at 07:15

    what is the reason for the vertical alignment?

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  4. Mieke Roth9 September 2014 at 08:45

    ah, thanks! that makes sense.

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  5. Mateo Enzo Raphael Giovanni9 September 2014 at 14:46

    Amazing like  Always thx Rhys Taylor!

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