This page is an assortment of some of the astronomy visualizations that I’ve worked on over the years.
We’ll start with a production from the COSMUS group (Cosmology in Museums) at the University of Chicago. Special credit goes to the late, brilliant Dinoj Surendran who did most of the heavy lifting in the production. I love the reveal at the end where the model of the large scale structure is shown to be inside a computer in the SDSS control room. I also love the music contributed by Joaquin Viera and his band. This was created in stereoscopic 3D for the SciTech Museum in Aurora IL
Here is another popular flythrough of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey produced a few years later, in this case Miguel Angel Aragon Calvo did most of the heavy lifting.
I created the base visualization used in this Fermilab produced Journey through the Universe short video.
Here is a visualization I created with the Chandra group about a multiwavelength observing campaign for the black hole at the center of M87.
This is a similar zoom-in type video which I made to illustrate the power of the Worldwide Telescope software.
This is a visualization meant to accompany a sonification of natural radio emission detedted when the Parker Solar Probe passed by Venus.
I built the base visualization used here to promote a new catalog of gamma ray pulsars from the Fermi Space Telescope
This is a visualization of stars within 20pc showing morphing HR Diagrams. This was created for Jackie Faherty’s keynote lecture at the 236th AAS Meeting. At the end time is sped up so that we can see the proper motions.