marcus
Oct12-04, 12:00 PM
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/images/movie2003.mpg
four stars photographed (timelapse over years) doing
various type orbits around the million-solar-mass hole at
the center of Milky
one doing elliptical, one kind of long skinny parabolic,
one on what looks like a one-shot hyperbolic flyby but
of course you cant be sure judging by eye alone
nice visual
thanks to Sean Carroll for flagging this
the high-resolution version (longer download) is at this page:
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php
and also there is some text discussion,
the page is by some astronomy Max Planck Institute
here also is a movie taken of RR Lyrae stars going thru their cycles
where they change brightness and color over the course of hours
it is eerie to see stars changing so actively
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/%7Ejhartman/M3_movies.html
the moving image takes a few minutes to load but you can read about
Lyrae stars while it is loading
this movie was made today's "apod" astronomy picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041012.html
but I found the original J. Hartman page of it, at the other URL, gave
more interesting details
again thanks to Sean Carroll for both links
four stars photographed (timelapse over years) doing
various type orbits around the million-solar-mass hole at
the center of Milky
one doing elliptical, one kind of long skinny parabolic,
one on what looks like a one-shot hyperbolic flyby but
of course you cant be sure judging by eye alone
nice visual
thanks to Sean Carroll for flagging this
the high-resolution version (longer download) is at this page:
http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php
and also there is some text discussion,
the page is by some astronomy Max Planck Institute
here also is a movie taken of RR Lyrae stars going thru their cycles
where they change brightness and color over the course of hours
it is eerie to see stars changing so actively
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/%7Ejhartman/M3_movies.html
the moving image takes a few minutes to load but you can read about
Lyrae stars while it is loading
this movie was made today's "apod" astronomy picture of the day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041012.html
but I found the original J. Hartman page of it, at the other URL, gave
more interesting details
again thanks to Sean Carroll for both links