Views from Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field in 3D!

August 13th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 

While trying to find more information on the meteor shower I was promised last night but didn’t see, I came across this gorgeous video on YouTube today. In the words of Tony Darnell, who scripted the narration and shared it with the world:

I’ve recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image.
I’ve written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field.
Every galaxy in the image is in its proper distance as viewed from the telescope line of sight.

It’s breathtaking, I highly recommend you take a look!

Also, for more on the meteors, there’s tonnes of information on Twitter if you search #Meteorwatch

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