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

Thursday 10 May 2018

A galactic blanket


Here's one I left rendering overnight. This is a different data set than the previous ones, looking at Milky Way hydrogen over an area about 4 times larger than the the other cube. It doesn't have as many frequency channels so I interpolated some extra ones for a smoother effect. This is rendered as a conventional surface, which works quite well for this naturally-landscapey data set.

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