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Credit: D. Nadeau, J. Genetti, C. Emmart, E. Wesselak; SDSC/AMNH.
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Orion Nebula in Three Dimensions
David Nadeau, Jon Genetti, Carter Emmart, Erik Wesselak
Creators at the San Diego Supercomputing Center used images from the Hubble Space Telescope and data from infrared astronomy to model the structure and volume of the central region of the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away, as it might appear to a viewer actually there -- complete with glowing gases, dust clouds, and bright proto-star systems. A production team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York added the underskeleton of the nebula and laid out a virtual "flight path." The result is an ethereal flight in and around the nebula that took second place in the multimedia category.
See the movie (SDSC Web site; 15 MB)
Learn more about the visualization (SDSC Web site)
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