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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 :


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