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What if you can stand in a passage in a huge building in New York City and feel as if you were in the center of the universe?
Well, you can. “Eyes on the universe: pictures of space telescopes“In the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, it is a jewel box exhibition that includes 14 photographs of superior space, planets, galaxies and other astronomical physical objects captured by three bars operating in space. It was opened earlier this year and will be operated indefinitely.
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The introductory image directly outside the exhibition- more than five feet- shows a visualization of data from the Milky Way galaxy that resembles the outlines of a mountainous mountain range in the dark. It was taken before Gaya telescopeWhich was launched in 2013 by the European Space Agency and completed its mission in March.
What is almost impossible to understand is what this image represents: Gaya’s efforts to measure each individual star-her position, speed and brightness-in our galaxy, Milky Way, said Mordeca-Mark Mac Low, which is the exhibition exhibition outlets. He added so far that Gaia has surveyed about one percent of all stars in the galaxy or about a billion stars.
While there are dozens of space telescopes, the two values chose to use images that are transferred by three major halls – The Gaia, Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope
They have gone through hundreds of pictures available to the public through NASA and the European Space Agency, with a focus on those that met one of at least three criteria: they provide various examples of human understanding of the universe, and they look good in the small hallway area, and have some communication with the museum’s space research.
Dr. Mc Loo said, at the widest level, related to “trying to understand how the sun and the earth have become by studying how the stars are formed, how galaxies are formed, and how the first stars begin to generate heavy elements. Iron in our blood comes from supernova – explosive stars.
On a more specific level-knowledge-astronomical physics helped in the discovery of the nineteenth century that the atoms emit different colors, which led to quantum mechanics, which led to an understanding of semiconductors.
He said: “This phone in my pocket depends completely on very accurate investigations into semiconductors.”
A picture similar to the mural on the entrance appears a giant blue pink spiral against black with a bright yellow light in the middle of a spiral. The stars in the center are billions of years, while those in the outer part of a whirlpool are young – they are only millions of years.
Viewers can use a quick response code to display a model for how to form this galaxy.
Other photos include about 300,000 groups of brilliantly mobilized stars in the Milky Way; Another looks like a blue planet drifting in space, but in reality it is a giant bubble of gas and dust that measures seven light years across.
The exhibition also highlights how all photo telescopes convey differently. For example, two pictures of the so -called banned spiral galaxy are placed one above. The upper image, from the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990, uses visible light and shows a look like a spiral of light. One, from the same galaxy, used by the James Web telescope, which was launched in 2021, is mainly used in infrared. It seems that the circle of fire.
The hot stars emit visible light, while cold dust in space emites infrared light, and thus the difference in appearance.
The three telescopes send different images for several reasons – where they are, what is designed to photograph and how strong it is. Hubble in a low orbit – about 300 miles above the ground. Gaia was and still revolves around the moon, at a stage where the moon’s appeal and the gravitational Earth were equal – about a million miles from the Earth.
Dr. Mc Ln, Gaya’s Telescope was constantly going on in an attempt to draw the entire map of the sky, while Hubble and James Web are pointed telescopes that capture points in the universe. The colors of all images are strengthened; He said that the astronomer who treats the image uses something closer to the Instagram candidate “for some mix of scientific value and aesthetics.
His hope is that at least the exhibition will mention some of those who walk next to it, “The universe is a very big place and may make them a little search for their own focus.”