Sunday, March 09, 2008

Hold the Milky Way in the palm of your hand


Remember that moment in Men in Black when we find out that the whole galaxy is held inside a crystal? I thought that was a pretty neat graphic. Well now we can get close to the same thing. Living World's has developed the Milky Way galaxy 3D model. This model is a Lucite like block that is totally clear except this cube contains 80,000 laser rendered stars that represent the Milky Way galaxy. Each point was created using real space data. However this piece of art doesn't come cheap. It will set you back over 700 dollars US.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If you buy it from Japan it will cost that much but if you buy it from Bathsheba Grossmanthe the artist in California you'll pay a small fraction of that 700 dollars and have a lot of choices for astronomy, biology and physics. I bought two and the light base They are great