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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Space dragons are officially serious science

I'm in a press release based on a Nature paper and I talk about space dragons. Because that's how I roll.

 "As we rotated the data cube, we got our first glimpse of the structure that we've nicknamed Orion's Dragon," said Rhys Taylor, a scientist at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and a consultant to the SOFIA team, in a press release. "A few people have said it looks like a sea horse or a pterodactyl, but it looks like a dragon to me."

 A bit more of my own explanation and more images (including a VR video) can be found here.

 http://astronomy.com/news/2019/01/orions-dragon-revealed-in-3d-by-nasas-airborne-observatory
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