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

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Hydrogen Storm over Giza


Only visible to those with superhetrodyne receivers for eyes. Different colours are at different frequencies; changing the center frequency gives animation.

I cheated a lot for this one - field of view for the sky is about twice what it should be. The all-sky data is so low resolution it's not really useable except for very wide-angle shots.

Stop stripping the dwarves, they don't like it !

Today's paper revisits a very minor but interesting storm in a teacup. Back in 2021, Junais et al. reported on  a possible Ultra Diffuse...