Trailers seem to be the ‘in thing’ these days. There is a (very long) trailer for the BLAST experiment’s movie somewhere out on the internet. Today, this very nice trailer popped up in my Twitter feed from Stuart at Astronomy Blog. It’s for the International Year of Astronomy, also known as 2009. This is going be lots of fun and will with any luck also be when I graduate my PhD. The video is below, or via this link for other formats.
IYA 2009 Trailer
Posted on 17 April 2008 · 615 views · 134 words.
This post was written by:
ttfnRob - who has written 557 posts on Orbiting Frog.
I am studying for my PhD in Astronomy at Cardiff University in the UK. Star formation is my main area of research but really I like anything to do with space, science and the internet.
3 Comments For This Post
Leave a Reply
April 17th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Actually Rob, that wasn’t posted by me. My plan had only ever been to keep the IYA twitter feed ‘warm’. At NAM I shared the twitter login details with Lars (ESA/Hubble) so there are now a few ‘official’ people updating it.
It is a great trailer though and features some extracts of a fantastic animation - flying outwards from the VLT site to the HST - that Lars showed at NAM.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Sorry about that Stuart. I just assumed. And you know what happen when you assume…
April 17th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
It’s amazing isn’t it Rob. I downloaded the HD version today. As you can imagine that one is incredible. I’d love to see this in cinemas before the movie!