Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

The Magellanic Sky


A happy accident while trying to view the Magellanic Stream (as one does, for science). This is basically the same as the "Hydrogen Sky" video/gif I posted a while back) - neutral hydrogen data overlaid on an optical image. This time I just wanted to view a particular feature, the Magellanic Stream - a huge feature that spans more than half the sky. But by setting the camera's field of view to an absurdly large 180 degrees, I found myself inside Dr Who's time vortex...

The hydrogen sky gif is below, taken from the video here :


at
Labels:

1 comment:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

AI Can Help Us Publish Less, Says Scientist

Not really all that much about AI in this one , actually. I think everyone agrees that "publish or perish" is bad, but I don't...

  • ChatGPT-5 Versus Me
    It's time for another round of evaluating whether ChatGPT is actually helpful for astronomical research. My previous experiments can be ...
  • ChatGPT-5 versus... DeepSeek
    My excitement for ChatGPT-5 continues to defy the Will Of The Internet. Sod y'all, this is feckin' awesome ! This is the upgrade I...
  • A dark RELHIC of an earlier age
    The last time I tried to count the number of times objects had been claimed to be the first dark galaxy candidates, I stopped at ten becaus...