Flying through asteroids in VR
Astronomer Paolo Tanga of Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France, flying through asteroid orbits in a Virtual Reality (VR) visualisation of data from ESA’s Gaia mission during the International Astronomical Union 30th General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
High-precision measurements of more than 14 000 known asteroids in our Solar System were included in the mission’s second data release. Paolo is leading the Solar System objects group that was responsible for these data in the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium.
The data visualisation is provided by Gaia Sky, a real-time, 3D astronomy visualisation software that was developed in the framework of the Gaia mission at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
