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List of Visualizations

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Viz types, descriptions, categories

 

-- astronomical processes

 

-- physical concepts

 

-- educational tools

 

-- beauty shots

 

-- didactic explanations

 

-- documentary sequences (talking heads, etc)

 

-- static models vs. time sequences

 

-- astronomical objects

   planetary systems

   stars and nebulae

   galaxies

   cosmology

 

-- people & places - astronomers, telescopes, and more

 

-- space missions

   spacecraft models and flight paths

   mission results

 

 

 

 

Big, huge, unordered list (with my bias toward astronomical processes)

 

-- planetary nebula formation

 

-- supernova explosion

 

-- galaxy collision

 

-- star collision

 

-- globular cluster star motion

 

-- formation of the solar system

 

-- gravitational lensing

 

-- Hadley cell convection in Venus' atmosphere

 

-- bands in Jupiter's atmosphere

 

-- epoch of re-ionization, CMB

 

-- galaxy formation

 

-- star formation

 

-- planetary system orbits

 

-- binary star systems

 

-- accretion disks

 

-- stellar jets

 

-- mass transfer between stars

 

-- black hole and netron stars and lensing

 

-- supermassive black hole

 

-- falling into a black hole

 

-- gaseous pillars in star forming regions

 

-- H2 region

 

-- time resolved data (like gamma ray bursts)

 

-- large scale structure

 

-- spectra changing with stellar type

 

-- multi-wavelength comparisons

 

-- rotation of a galaxy and development of spiral arms

 

-- lifecycle of a giant molecular cloud

 

-- stellar colors

 

-- eclipses of the Moon and the Sun

 

-- stellar eclipses

 

-- planetary surfaces

 

-- planetary atmospheres

 

-- Saturn's rings

 

-- moon systems

 

-- galactic center

 

-- Milky Way structure

 

-- nearby stars

 

-- constellations (in 3D)

 

-- space junk

 

-- narrow line imaging

 

-- multi-wavelength Sun

 

-- interiors of the planets

 

-- stellar structure (helioseismology)

 

-- magnetic fields (Earth, Sun, planets, ...)

 

 

Need to use email to really develop a rank ordered list. Too

large a process to do as a group discussion. When we email

about viz favorites, we should ask the community for references

to existing viz, models, texture maps, etc. Can use the results

of this community probing to develop list of links. Can then

develop basic web site of such links for community access.

Would prefer to develop library with assets tagged, searchable,

and available.