The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, is one of the nearest and best examples of a grand design spiral galaxy. Located about 25 million light-years away, the face-on galaxy exposes the full details of its swirling structures of stars, gas, and dust. The striking symmetry of its spiral pattern may be due to a gravitational interaction with a companion dwarf galaxy, NGC 5195, which is not included in this visualization.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s high-resolution view of this magnificent spiral galaxy comes to life in this 3D visualization. The flight across the pancake-shaped disk features the older, yellower stars toward the center and the younger, bluer stars in the outer regions. Dark dust lanes outline the spiral arms, along which are strewn an array of bright pink star-forming regions.

Credit: F. Summers, J. DePasquale, and D. Player (STScI)

An Astrovizicist’s Guide to the Film ‘Deep Field: The Impossible Magnitude of Our Universe’
Frank Summers of the Space Telescope Science Institute

In November 2018, composer Eric Whitacre’s Hubble-inspired symphony “Deep Field” was released as a film accompanied by NASA images and scientific visualizations from the night sky to the edge of the observable universe. The Space Telescope Science Institute provided 11 sequences that not only depict the awesome beauty of the universe, but also express the three-dimensional nature of celestial objects. Dr. Summers, who served as the visualization lead on the project, will provide a behind-the-scenes view of the science and art in this unique cinematic and symphonic experience.

Watch the “Deep Field” film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiD8F9ItX0

Host: Dr. Frank Summers

Recorded live on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

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Our Place in the Stars
Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute

What is our place in the stars? How did we get here? Are we alone? Dr. Amaya Moro-Martin will address these essential questions, which drive scientific and philosophical pursuits—and each new answer blossoms into yet more questions that seed further inquiries. This is a journey of self-discovery, full of wonders and wanderers, and makes us reflect on our role to enable exploration to continue.

Host: Dr. Frank Summers

Recorded live on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

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The Whirlpool Galaxy is a magnificent spiral galaxy that has been studied across the spectrum by NASA’s Great Observatories. This remarkable video uses two dimensional images and three dimensional visualizations to contrast and compare the different views of infrared (Spitzer Space Telescope), visible (Hubble Space Telescope), and X-ray (Chandra X-ray Observatory) observations. Within these spectral bands, each wavelength region illustrates a different component of the stars, gas, and dust that comprise the galaxy. By both separating and combining seven multiwavelength views, astronomers gain a broader and richer look into the detailed structure of a spiral galaxy.

Run time: 3 minutes 5 seconds

Visualization: Frank Summers, Joseph DePasquale, Dani Player (STScI),
Kim Arcand (SAO/CXC), Robert Hurt (Caltech/IPAC)

Music: “Cylinder Five”, Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0

Acknowledgement: NASA’s Universe of Learning

Speaker: Scott Fleming of the Space Telescope Science Institute

In April 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched and by the summer it was sending back data. What has this planet-hunter found? Dr. Scott Fleming will share several of the first exciting discoveries, plus detail about how the observatory is designed and how it compares to NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission. All of the data from TESS is available in the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), which is based at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Host: Dr. Frank Summers

Recorded live on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

More information: http://hubble.stsci.edu/about_us/public_talks/

Starting in 2019, you will find “Tonight’s Sky” on Space Telescope Science Institute’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/spacetelescopevision

“Tonight’s Sky” is a monthly video of constellations you can observe in the night sky. The series is produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, home of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope, in partnership with NASA’s Universe of Learning.