Making ‘real astronomy’ visible to the public

Usuda-Sato, Kumiko; Tsuzuki, Hiroko; Yamaoka, H.

doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0567-0

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“…While providing a rich experience for the end user, the avenues for extension are limited. The Mitaka software [USTY18] enables users to explore the observable universe and makes it easy for them to create custom presentations that can be shown on a large variety of immersive display environments.…”

Section: Education and Outreachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth

Lan

Young

Anderson

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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We present a state‐of‐the‐art report on visualization in astrophysics. We survey representative papers from both astrophysics and visualization and provide a taxonomy of existing approaches based on data analysis tasks. The approaches are classified based on five categories: data wrangling, data exploration, feature identification, object reconstruction, as well as education and outreach. Our unique contribution is to combine the diverse viewpoints from both astronomers and visualization experts to identify challenges and opportunities for visualization in astrophysics. The main goal is to provide a reference point to bring modern data analysis and visualization techniques to the rich datasets in astrophysics.

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Section: Education and Outreachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth

Lan

Young

Anderson

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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GALAXY CRUISE: Accessible Big Data of the Subaru Telescope for Citizen Astronomers

et al. 2019

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The Universe is full of galaxies of various shapes; some galaxies have spiral arms and others don’t. Why do galaxies show such diversity? How were galaxies formed and evolved? Galaxies are thought to grow by interacting and merging with other galaxies, and the galaxy mergers may be the key process creating the variety. GALAXY CRUISE is the first citizen science project conducted by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) to unlock galaxies’ secrets using the big observational data. We made the superior quality big data taken by the Subaru Telescope accessible to the public and invited them to participate in data classification. Here we report how we designed the website and its first-year progress.

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