MPL3D Solar System

Tour 1  

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The video starts looking at Pluto's moon, Charon, and it visits all the planets of our solar system, including Earth. 

• Then we move 100 light years away to circle the Sun,

• away again to 15.000 light years, travelling outside the galaxy, 

• to finally travel 500.000 light years away from it.

Galaxy tour  

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Enjoy a journey across the Milky Way. 

• Discover that there is a whole circus out there, and how lucky we are.

Sun lava

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Enjoy the hypnotic and everchanging surface of the stars.

• Sunspot evolution and solar flares can be observed at this video.

 Rapid rotating stars

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There are well known stars that rotate around themselves every few hours. 

• This causes an equatorial enlargement that can be observed at this video, as well as the circumstellar disks and the gravity darkening due to the high rotational velocities.

Pulse stars


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Star sounds


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This video shows a computer emulation of stellar seismology in different stars.

• The surface of a star usually oscillates, and this oscillation can be tranformed into an audible sound wave.

Stellar seismology is the study of the propagation of these wave oscillations in the stars, particularly acoustic pressure waves.

• Star pressure waves are generated in the convection zone near the surface, then the acoustic waves are transmitted to the outer photosphere of the star.

• The oscillations are detectable on images of the Sun, or by measuring the doppler shift of photospheric absorption lines of a star.

Alien skies


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Discover how skies might look like from inside other planets atmospheres, including Venus, Mars and distant exoplanets, outside of our solar system.

Binary stars 

 
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Please enjoy some binary stars, including systems like 

• Alpha Scorpii (Antares), 

• Alpha Piscium (Alrisha), 

• Alpha Virginis (Spica),

• Beta Cygni (Albireo), 

• Beta Persei (Algol), 

• Beta Monocerotis (Cerastes), 

• Gamma Cassiopeiae (Tsih), 

• Gamma Velorum (Regor), 

• VV Cephei, 

• Theta Orionis, 

• Tau Canis Majoris 

and many others.

Watch star 

• systems with mass transfer, 

• systems inside nebulae, 

• systems with planets, 

• the movement of stars with eccentric orbits

All images shown have been done using real data about known binary star systems.

Extrasolar planets 

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Star clusters 


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Take a trip around the galaxy and meet some known open and globular star clusters.

Halley visit 1986  

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Andromeda tour 

 

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This time we visit several stars of the Andromeda constellation to end orbiting 50 Upsilon Andromedae, a star system with three planets, 44 light years away from Earth.

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