{"id":14143,"date":"2018-01-22T05:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=14143"},"modified":"2018-01-22T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T05:56:21","slug":"an-immersive-visualization-of-the-galactic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=14143","title":{"rendered":"An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/YKzxmeABbkU\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What if you could look out from the center of our Galaxy &#8212; what might you see? Two scientifically-determined possibilities are shown in the featured video, an immersive 360-degree view which allows you to look around in every direction. The pictured computer simulation is based on infrared data from ESO&#8217;s Very Large Telescope in Chile and X-ray data from NASA&#8217;s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. As the video starts, you quickly approach Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Then looking out, this 500-year time-lapse simulation shows glowing gas and many points of light orbiting all around you. Many of these points are young Wolf-Rayet stars that have visible hot winds blowing out into surrounding nebulas. Clouds approaching close become elongated, while objects approaching too close fall in. Toward the video&#8217;s end the simulation repeats, but this time with the dynamic region surrounding Sgr A* expelling hot gas that pushes back against approaching material. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap180122.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could look out from the center of our Galaxy &#8212; what might you see? Two scientifically-determined possibilities are shown in the featured video, an immersive 360-degree view <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=14143\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-14143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14144,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14143\/revisions\/14144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}