Massage your brain with some space gifs

UCLA’s Galactic Center Group has some wildly trippy animations that allow a user to visualize the actions of objects in space in ways that can be kind of hard to think of. We’re reproducing them for you here and recommend watching them if you’re a lover of astronomy and/or are high.

Timelapse of a supermassive black hole. Keck/UCLA Galactic Center Group

A view of the galactic center with progressively decreasing interference from the earth’s atmosphere Keck/UCLA Galactic Center Group

Planetary orbits at the center of the galaxy as we currently see them, progressing into projections of those orbits that astronomers believe they’ll see with future telescope technology. Keck/UCLA Galactic Center Group

Insert obligatory “Dude…. what if we’re just, like, ants” here.

Note: These images/animations were created by Prof. Andrea Ghez and her research team at UCLA and are from data sets obtained with the W. M. Keck Telescopes.

Massage your brain with some space gifs

Insert obligatory “Dude…. what if we’re just, like, ants” here.

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