Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way Short Fulldome Planetarium Show
What lies at the heart of our galaxy? For twenty years, ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Keck telescopes have observed the centre of the Galaxy, looking at the motion of more than a hundred stars and identifying the position of an otherwise invisible object — the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Embark on a Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way and during seven minutes travel faster than light, from the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile right to the centre of our own galaxy, where a black hole is consuming anything that strays into its path. 84 million stars will appear in front of your eyes, each hiding mysteries waiting to be solved. Are there planets around them, perhaps with moons? Do they have water? Could they harbour life?
Journey to the Centre of the Milky Way is the first fulldome planetarium mini-show produced in-house by ESO for its Planetarium and Visitor Centre, the ESO Supernova, due to open in spring 2018. Available for free in 4k resolution, the mini-show can be downloaded and used by any planetarium in the world. More free fulldome clips are here.
The Movie poster is here.
A flattened version of this movie is available here.
Note: for important advice regarding downloading and unzipping please read here.
Credit:ESO
Directed by: Lars Lindberg Christensen
Art Direction, Production Design: Luis Calçada
Producer: Luis Calçada
Written by: Georgia Bladon & Lars Lindberg Christensen
Editing: Luis Calçada
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa
Russian version:
- 'DrMichael' and Live!Universe (www.nebulacast.com)
- Mono version
German version:
- Sebastian Thiele (Planetarium Cottbus)
Spanish version:
- Translation: Andressa Barbosa Catarinacho
- Sound supervision and Audio post processing: Alejandro Posada
- Consultants: Carlos Molina & Claudia Aguirre
- Recorded at Planetarium of Medellín (Medellín, Colombia)
- Mono version
Korean version:
- Production and project management : METASPACE, Seoul, South Korea
- Translation : Kang-hwan Lee (Seodaemun Museum of Natural History), Seoul, South Korea
- Science editors : Kang-hwan Lee (Seodaemun Museum of Natural History), Seoul, South Korea
- Narrator : Gyeong-a Jo (Korea Broadcasiting System), Seoul, South Korea
- Record producer and sound engineer : Ee-ra Sim (Hwang Geum Media), Seoul, South Korea
Romanian version:
- Produced by Radu Anghel
Turkish version:
- Production: İstanbul University Science Faculty E.C.A. Planetarium
- Recorded at: İstanbul University Science Faculty E.C.A. Planetarium
- Translation: Mirkan Yusuf Kalkan
- Redaction: Sinan Aliş
- Narration: A. Talat Saygaç
- Audio Mix & Recording: F. Korhan Yelkenci
- Consultant: Sinan Aliş
- Editing & Post-production: F. Korhan Yelkenci
Soundtrack & Sound Effects: Michael Stearns Sacred Site (michaelstearns.com)
3D animations, footage and photos: Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser, Gas cloud simulation: ESO/S. Gillessen/MPE/Marc Schartmann, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), VISTA/J. Emerson, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), Stéphane Guisard (eso.org/~sguisard), Serge Brunier & B.Tafreshi (twanight.org)
Software: Domeview, Fulldome Plugin and WFCam4D (http://software.multimeios.pt)
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
More:
- ESO's free fulldome clips and shows (4k and 8k)
- ESO's free 3D models
- ESO's free fulldome stills
- ESO's free 360 degree panoramas
- Free Fulldome clips at ESA/Hubble (4k and 8k)
If you don't want to miss any of our Fulldome videos, we recommend you subscribe to our Fulldome RSS feeds:
About the Video
| Id: | eso-jcmw |
| Release date: | 26 November 2014, 12:00 |
| Related announcements: | ann14088 |
| Duration: | 06 m 38 s |
| Frame rate: | 30 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | Milky Way Galactic Centre, Paranal, Very Large Telescope |
| Category: | Fulldome |
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