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.
[quicktime]http://www.astronomy2009.org/videos/320px/iya_trailer.mov[/quicktime]
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.
Sorry about that Stuart. I just assumed. And you know what happen when you assume…
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!