When the Square Kilometer Array comes online in 2029, it will eventually include data that can be counted in the petabytes (1,000 terabytes or 1 million gigabytes). In the future the team plans to add databases that contain asteroids, nebulae, pulsars and other space objects. VIRUP uses data from a wide variety of sources including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Gaia mission, the Planck mission and more. They gathered information from eight databases that include the 4,500 known exoplanets and tens of millions of galaxies. The novelty of this project was putting all the data set available into one framework, when you can see the universe at different scales – nearby us, around the Earth, around the solar system, at the Milky Way level, to see through the universe and time up to the beginning – what we call the Big Bang. Team member Jean-Paul Kneib said in a statement: The goal is to produce images of the entire observable universe. The computer algorithms used to create the Virtual Reality Universe Project pull in terabytes of data – a terabyte is about a trillion bytes of data – gathered from telescopes worldwide. The sources of the virtual reality universe map In the video, the detailed 3D model of the universe begins at Earth and voyages out through our solar system to the Milky Way, then all the way to the cosmic web and the relic light of the Big Bang.
You can also view it in your choice of 4K, VR180, or 360 degrees. From the data, researchers created a 20-minute movie, Archaeology of Light: An Immersive Journey Through Space and Time, which you can watch below. You can view this free map of the universe with virtual reality gear or 3D glasses, on planetarium-like dome screens, or on your regular computer or television screen for a standard view. One note: The beta version can’t yet run on a Mac computer. The team used this data to create 3D panoramic landscapes of space that you can fly through, if you have the right gear.
Its open-source beta software contains what these scientists say is the largest data set of the universe. This week (October 12, 2021), researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne released a beta version of their Virtual Reality Universe Project, which they call VIRUP. But now you can do all those things virtually. And none of us will travel so far as another galaxy, or far enough away in space (and therefore far enough back in time) to witness the early universe, or even the Big Bang itself.
So it’s likely that you personally won’t get to visit the International Space Station, or, say, Mars. Image via / Laurent Gillieron/ Keystone via AP.įewer than 600 people, of Earth’s billions, have traveled to space so far. The Virtual Reality Universe Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland builds, in real-time, a virtual universe based on current data. In this image, software engineer Hadrien Gurnel is exploring a 3D map of the universe via virtual reality.
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