Environment
S/W : Alias Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Sound Forge, Final Cut Pro, Bisque the Sky
H/W : Mac Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Synopsis
Immanuel Kant's bold and imaginative " Island Universes" hypothesis states that stars do not fill outer space in some random manner, but rather they are organized in huge clouds, held together by their gravity and flattened by rotation. What he called " island universes" we now call galaxies. This hypothesis explains both the appearance of the Milky Way in the night sky, as well as the appearance of small faint nebulae that astronomers began to find in increasing numbers with the aid of telescopes.
Art Team Dallim Park, Javier Zumaeta, Hailong Dong,
Robert Ting, Alvin Manning, Courtney Woods
Patrick Armitage, Grigor Dzhambazyan
Astronomy Research Team Derek Wells, Anne Sullivan, Daniel Guzman
Frank Wong, Jillian Tromp, Mike Rios
Eugene Shvarts, Giancarlo Restreppo
Technical Development Team Jigar Patel, Rone Kwei Lim, Zhenghui Hu
Julia Yefimenko, Spencer Perreault
Credits
This animation is based upon work supported by the California State University Los Angeles and by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0622933. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the California State University or the National Science Foundation. Materials on this animation is copyright by the Scientific Visualization Laboratory, California State University Los Angeles. Copyright for images marked "copyright uncertain" is unknown, but assumed to be in the public domain because of the age of the image. If you believe that you own the rights to any of the images I use, please contact me and I will either withdraw that picture or add an acknowledgement.
Star animation
Used with permission : Simulated by the Sky, Bisque
Thomas Digges map (1576)
An illustration of the Copernican universe from Thomas Digges' book, A Perfit Description of the Caelestiall Orbes. This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
Painted portrait of Immanuel Kant
This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.
Immanuel Kant Portrait (1975)
Antiquariatskatalog des Antiquariats Stenderhoff & Co in Münster: Immanuel Kant und seine Zeit
Most-Distant Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst (Arizona State University) and H. Yan (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech) This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted.
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/opo0428b.html
