Recently we told you about the new 3-D IMAX movie based on data from the Hubble Space Telescope. We also told you about how the NCSA helped with some of the sequences in the movie.
However, one questions still remains. All of the spectacular images that come from Hubble are two dimensional. How did they get them into a 3-D format? Well, that is what the article at NASA’s Image of the Day gallery tells you.
This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon.
A 15-light-year-wide canyon would probably look very flat to us if we were standing on it. Heck I am not even certain we could see the sides of the canyon.
via : Image of the Day Gallery @ NASA
