{"id":15459,"date":"2018-01-11T17:44:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15459"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:47:21","slug":"video-3d-journey-through-the-orion-nebula-courtesy-hubble-and-spitzer-space-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15459","title":{"rendered":"Video: 3D  journey through the Orion Nebula courtesy Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tour of the Orion Nebula via imagery from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hubble\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitzer.caltech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spitzer<\/a> space telescopes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/news_release\/news\/2018-04\" target=\"_d\">NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkWrjrdT3Zg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Unprecedented Fly-through Combines the Visible and Infrared Vision of the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>By combining the visible and infrared capabilities of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA&#8217;s Universe of Learning program have created a spectacular, three-dimensional, fly-through movie of the magnificent Orion nebula, a nearby stellar nursery. Using actual scientific data along with Hollywood techniques, a team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Caltech\/IPAC in Pasadena, California, has produced the best and most detailed multi-wavelength visualization yet of the Orion nebula. The three-minute movie allows viewers to glide through the picturesque star-forming region and experience the universe in an exciting new way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA\u2019s Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to create an unprecedented, three-dimensional, fly-through view of the picturesque Orion Nebula, a nearby star-forming region.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers experience this nearby stellar nursery \u201cclose up and personally\u201d as the new digital visualization ferries them among newborn stars, glowing clouds heated by intense radiation, and tadpole-shaped gaseous envelopes surrounding protoplanetary disks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15461\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/image\/4109\/news_release\/2018-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15461\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15461\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/low_STScI-H-p1804a-d1280x7201.png\" data-orig-size=\"640,360\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Orion Nebula\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/low_STScI-H-p1804a-d1280x7201.png\" class=\"wp-image-15461\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/low_STScI-H-p1804a-d1280x7201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/low_STScI-H-p1804a-d1280x7201.png 640w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/low_STScI-H-p1804a-d1280x7201-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Visible and Infrared Visualization of the Orion Nebula (Artist&#8217;s Concept) : This image showcases both the visible-light and the infrared-light visualizations of the Orion Nebula. This view from the movie sequence looks down the \u201cvalley\u201d leading to the star cluster at the far end. The left side of the image shows the visible-light visualization, which fades to the infrared visualization on the right. These two contrasting models derive from observations by the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Using actual scientific imagery and other data, combined with Hollywood techniques, a team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Caltech\/IPAC in Pasadena, California, has created the best and most detailed multi-wavelength visualization yet of this photogenic nebula. The fly-through enables people to experience and learn about the universe in an exciting new way.<\/p>\n<p>The three-minute movie, which shows the Orion Nebula in both visible and infrared light, was released to the public today. It is available to planetariums and other centers of informal learning worldwide to help audiences explore fundamental questions in science such as, \u201cHow did we get here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cBeing able to fly through the nebula\u2019s tapestry in three dimensions gives people a much better sense of what the universe is really like,\u201d explained the Space Telescope Science Institute\u2019s visualization scientist Frank Summers, who led the team that developed the movie. \u201cBy adding depth and structure to the amazing images, this fly-through helps elucidate the universe for the public, both educating and inspiring,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>added Summers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cLooking at the universe in infrared light gives striking context for the more familiar visible-light views. This movie provides a uniquely immersive chance to see how new features appear as we shift to wavelengths of light normally invisible to our eyes,\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>said Robert Hurt, lead visualization scientist at IPAC.<\/p>\n<p>One of the sky\u2019s brightest nebulas, the Orion Nebula is visible to the naked eye. It appears as the middle \u201cstar\u201d in the sword of the constellation Orion, the Hunter, and is located about 1,350 light-years away. At only 2 million years old, the nebula is an ideal laboratory for studying young stars and stars that are still forming. It offers a glimpse of what might have happened when the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The three-dimensional video provides a look at the fantastic topography of the nebula. A torrent of ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from the massive, central stars of the Trapezium star cluster have carved out a cavernous bowl-like cavity in the wall of a giant cloud of cold molecular hydrogen laced with dust.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers and visualizers worked together to make a three-dimensional model of the depths of this cavernous region, like plotting mountains and valleys on the ocean floor. Colorful Hubble and Spitzer images were then overlaid on the terrain.<\/p>\n<p>The scientific visualization video takes the viewer on a breathtaking flight through the nebula, following the contours of the gas and dust. By toggling between the Hubble and Spitzer\u2019s views, the movie shows strikingly different details of the Orion Nebula.<\/p>\n<p>Hubble sees objects that glow in visible light, which are typically in the thousands of degrees. Spitzer is sensitive to cooler objects with temperatures of just hundreds of degrees. Spitzer\u2019s infrared vision pierces through obscuring dust to see stars embedded deep into the nebula, as well as fainter and less massive stars, which are brighter in the infrared than in visible light. The new visualization helps people experience how the two telescopes provide a more complex and complete picture of the nebula.<\/p>\n<p>The visualization is one of a new generation of products and experiences being developed by the NASA\u2019s Universe of Learning program. The effort combines a direct connection to the science and scientists of NASA\u2019s Astrophysics missions with attention to audience needs to enable youth, families, and lifelong learners to explore fundamental questions in science, experience how science is done, and discover the universe for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The three-dimensional interpretation is guided by scientific knowledge and scientific intuition. Starting with the two-dimensional Hubble and Spitzer images, Summers and Hurt worked with experts to analyze the structure inside the nebula. They first created a visible-light surface, and then an underlying structure of the infrared features.<\/p>\n<p>To give the nebula its ethereal feel, Summers wrote a special rendering code for efficiently combining the tens of millions of semi-transparent elements of the gas. The customized code allows Summers to run this and other visualizations on desktop workstations, rather than on a supercomputing cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The other components of the nebula were isolated into image layers and modeled separately. These elements included stars, protoplanetary disks, bow shocks, and the thin gas in front of the nebula called \u201cthe veil.\u201d After rendering, these layers and the gaseous nebula are brought back together to create the visualization.<\/p>\n<p>The three-dimensional structures serve as scientifically reasonable approximations for imagining the nebula.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cThe main thing is to give the viewer an experiential understanding, so that they have a way to interpret the images from telescopes,\u201d explained Summers. \u201cIt\u2019s a really wonderful thing when they can build a mental model in their head to transform the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional scene.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This movie demonstrates the power of multi-wavelength astronomy. It helps audiences understand how science is done \u2014 how and why astronomers use multiple regions of the electromagnetic spectrum to explore and learn about our universe. It is also whetting astronomers\u2019 appetites for what they will see with NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope, which will show much finer details of the deeper, infrared features.<\/p>\n<p>More visualizations and connections between the science of nebulas and learners can be explored through other products produced by NASA\u2019s Universe of Learning such as ViewSpace. ViewSpace is a video exhibit currently at almost 200 museums and planetariums across the United States. Visitors can go beyond video to explore the images produced by space telescopes with interactive tools now available for museums and planetariums.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech\/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universe-of-learning.org\/\">NASA\u2019s Universe of Learning Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/hubble\">NASA&#8217;s Hubble Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spitzer.caltech.edu\/\">NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tour of the Orion Nebula via imagery from the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes: NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula Unprecedented Fly-through Combines the Visible and Infrared Vision of the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes By combining the visible and infrared capabilities of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: 3D  journey through the Orion Nebula courtesy Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-41l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14079,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14079","url_meta":{"origin":15459,"position":0},"title":"Hubble: New mosaic of the Orion Nebula and detection of a fast escaping star","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Hubble space telescope\u00a0made a new image of the beautiful Orion Nebula and spotted a rogue star in the process: New Hubble mosaic of the Orion Nebula\u00a0 In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/heic1705a1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15675,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15675","url_meta":{"origin":15459,"position":1},"title":"ESO: Combo of telescopes sees deep and vividly into the Orion Nebula","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A new report from ESO (European Southern Observatory): ALMA Reveals Inner Web of Stellar Nursery New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments in the Orion Nebula. 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