Bluelarten| Hey! What Are You Looking At?

Hey! What Are You Looking At?

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) archives space agencies' data from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena (e.g., gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae). The Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC) is another repository containing missions studying comets, asteroids, and exoplanets among other things. Your challenge is to create a visualization tool that can help people interested in these phenomena to access the data quickly and easily.

The Bluelarten Project.

Summary

A web application that educates the public using data from the Canadian astronomy data center on how to be able to look up spot and observe some of the cosmic phenomena that are highly electromagnetic such as how to spot pulsars, quasar's, magnetars e.t.c so as to reach out and educate others on this phenomenas.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed a web application, it is important to the user who is much interested with the objects in the sky in knowing what they are, it is a Mosaic of cosmic phenomenas and short animation stories on each event, it is able to teach and reach out to enthusiasts through the short animation stories, we hope to educate the public on how to look up in the night sky with delight having the satisfaction of knowing what they are looking at.

How We Developed This Project

We were inspired by the very many members of the public who look up in the sky and wonder about the cool stuff that happens there.

Our project is a prototype and not quite fully implemented, most of it is in it's idea stage. We started by draughting a cool web app achitecture that we had previously brainstormed on and we shared the roles between the group members. We used quite a variety of coding language's in the development phase, we used javascript, css and html, we developed it in visual studio code integrated development environment and sublime text. The team came across alot of bugs which some they managed to fix but others are still being worked on.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used data from the Canadian astronomy data center to create a 3D Mosaic of different high electromagnetic cosmic phenomena photos to teach the public the phenomenas in a variety of wavelengths with clear and simple explanations.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZTCP1q5gzQQ2xrTmx1Zh220ZE-0dMohb/view?usp=sharing

Project Code
Data & Resources

Gemini observatory archive, Canadian astronomy data center.

Tags
#Hey, HEASARC #Observe
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.