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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Monday 8 September 2014
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What stops galaxies from forming stars ? Normally I'm most interested in this for objects which have hardly any stars at all : ultra dif...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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Another day, another paper on how exciting Ultra Diffuse Galaxies are. At first, these large, faint galaxies were just wholly unexpected, a...
Mr. 192,000,001 got left out? or is it 192,000,000 because you started with star zero?
ReplyDeleteOops ! Caught red-handed. It's actually 192,550,083. :p
ReplyDeletewhat is the reason for the vertical alignment?
ReplyDeleteah, thanks! that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteAmazing like Always thx Rhys Taylor!
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