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Holographic Visualization of Astronomical Structures

As human technology improves, we find new and better opportunities to communicate scientific data to the public, and the various aids we use in that pursuit become more efficient at conveying these topics. One of the facts that most people miss about our universe is the fact that the stars in our skies and the constellations or asterisms that contain them do not sit on a flat plane or simple sphere in our sky. Still, in fact, they have immense depth and structure that cannot be correctly communicated on paper or screen. For that reason, we proposed holograms as a possible solution to the problem of depth of these collections of stars, since they can reproduce a 3D view on a flat 2D plane using interference patterns on the film that encode the 3D information. We made 3D models using astronomical data and accessible materials.

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