Starship Asterisk*

http://vimeo.com/87092212 Over 100,000 asteroids and their colors, as seen by a single remarkable survey telescope. This animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with colors illustrating the compositional diversity measure...

In honor of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's 10th birthday (this Sunday, August 25th ), I created a mosaic of van Gogh's "Road with Cypress and Star" using a selection of Spitzer images. http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/SpitzerVanGoghTiny.jpg Happy birthday, Spitzer! More infor...

Hubble Space Telescope's Starry Night A re-imagining of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" using the "Top 100" Hubble Space Telescope images (collected from http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/ ). http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/starrynight_HST.thumb.jpg ...

Worlds: The Kepler Planet Candidates http://vimeo.com/47408739 This animation shows the 2299 high-quality, non-circumbinary transiting planet candidates found by NASA's Kepler mission so far. These candidates were detected around 1770 unique stars, but are animated in orbit around a single star. Th...

New Horizons Mission: Kuiper Belt Fly-Through http://vimeo.com/45883622 http://vimeo.com/alexhp/newhorizons Fly with the New Horizons spacecraft as it cruises by dozens of newly-discovered Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) near its trajectory. These objects were found by our survey team (gray points) as w...

Kepler 11: A Six-Planet Sonata http://vimeo.com/44945226 http://vimeo.com/alexhp/kepler-11 Sonification of the transits of the remarkable Kepler 11 planetary system. Kepler 11 has a compact system of six planets, detected by the Kepler observatory through their transits of their host star: http://e...