Astro Animations

History

Freidrich Bessel's incredible first observation of stellar parallax

Fact check Galileo's 1610 observations of Jupiter's moons

John Herschel's 1833 drawing of the Orion Nebula.

A simulation of the solar system

Orbits

Orbital elements

Conic Sections

Standard examples of chaotic systems

LSS

The images produced by strong gravitational lensing

The impact of cosmology on the expansion of the universe

CMB

Pixelate a sphere using HEALPix

Understand the basis functions used by the spherical harmonics

Combine the orders of the basis functions

Draw a power spectrum to create a CMB Temperature map