The Art of Science Visualization PPT 2 Decoding


















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The Art of Science Visualization PPT #2 Decoding Starlight & Coloring the Universe
Thank you, Chandra Experiments: 1. Decoding Starlight 2. Coloring the Universe 2 @kimberlykowal
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Chandra Telescope captures Photons (little specks of light) Here we see pixels, photons & energy. Electron-Volts every second. 4 @kimberlykowal
Chandra telescope sees black & white @kimberlykowal
Our eyes see this… But there is so much more there that we can’t see… @kimberlykowal
So, we add color, the energy tells us which ones. @kimberlykowal
Adding background stars… @kimberlykowal Hwang & Laming, 2012, Ap. J, 746, 130
Science + Art High Energy X-rays Medium Energy X-rays Low Energy X-rays See notes below @kimberlykowal
High Energy X-rays Medium Energy X-rays Low Energy X-rays 10 @kimberlykowal
High Energy X-rays Medium Energy X-rays Low Energy X-rays 11 @kimberlykowal
High Energy X-rays Medium Energy X-rays Low Energy X-rays 12 @kimberlykowal
Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her
Kim’s model 14 @kimberlykowal
Kim inside her model 15 @kimberlykowal
The many faces of Cass A 16
This is Galaxy M 101 See if you can translate colors for light 17
Now, go to the Chandra pdf “Decoding Starlight” for directions to make a star out of code. ________ or, go to the computer lab to “Color the Universe” This activity was created by volunteers David Bau (developer of Pencil Code and a Google employee), August Muench (astronomer for the American Astronomical Society), Kim Arcand (visualization lead for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory), and Sydney Pickens and Matthew Dawson (both computer science educators with Google CS First. )