Posted on 01/12/2018 12:13:13 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Budding astronauts can take a virtual space flight to the deepest depths of our galaxy, thanks to a stunning new interactive graphic produced by Nasa.
The immersive 360° visualisation depicts the heart of the Milky Way, roughly 26,000 light years (150,000 trillion miles) away from Earth.
It was created using data taken by satellites, which capture light that has managed to escape the monster black hole that lies in the middle of our spiral galaxy.
The project, made using data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, lets viewers control their own exploration of the fascinating environment of volatile giant stars and powerful gravity around the huge black hole.
While humans cannot physically travel there, scientists have been able to study this region by using X-ray, infrared and other observation methods.
The visualisation also uses infrared data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope that found 30 massive stellar giants, called Wolf-Rayet stars, which orbit within about 1.5 light years (8.8 trillion miles) of the galactic centre.
In the new visualisation, the viewer is at the location of Sgr A* and is able to see about 20 Wolf-Rayet stars, which appear as white, twinkling objects, orbiting Sgr A* as they continuously eject stellar winds, which are shown in a black to red to yellow colour scale.
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Neat stuff coming out from NASA. Why I have to find out about it in the Daily Mail is one of those unsolved mysteries of the universe.
The picture above looks a lot like my colon, only mine was red and green. At one time it did have a lot of hot gas in it but the colonoscopy cured that.
Perhaps our bodies are really miniature universes waiting to be explored by Dennis Quaid and Martin Short.
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Why is NASA looking at space when its primary missions are Muslim outreach and anthropogenic global warming?!
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