MidDayDreams - Space Apps Challenge

MidDayDreams| 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.

Space Now

Summary

"Space Now" is a webgl web application and a mobile app visualization tool for HEASARC data and events. Six modules of this simulation tool i.e:" Star Finder (Star Now), Celestial Photo Boom, Fermi’s Eye, See the Unseen, Ripple in Spacetime, Events of the year" will show six different approaches of visualizing data of current and AI predicted scenario for Celestial bodies and events. Stars, GRB, Gravitational wave, Visualization and simulation of GRB and Gravitational wave sources like Blackhole merging, Neutron star collision, How Fermi and Swift sends data to HEASARC Archive are shown with Events of the year-highlighting super events of HEASARC observation in a given time frame.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The first module named “Star Finder” allows users to simulate the life cycle of a star. Zoom slider allows users to experience the full view of the star. Gamma ray burst simulation can be seen in the “Celestial Photo Boom” module. These events were captured by various telescopes. “Fermi’s Eye” module provides users with the working process Fermi Space Telescope. In addition, a user friendly data directory is also available there. Users can visualize the sky in different wavelengths using the “See the Unseen” module. Gravitational wave simulation is available in “Ripple in Spacetime”. Users can visualize these events by selecting a time frame. Besides, upcoming events will be notified for analysis. A list of super events is available in the “Events of this year” module. Moreover, upcoming events will be notified to users using the Firebase Cloud Notification service.

How We Developed This Project

We , Mid day dreams often star gaze with our Newtonian Reflector Telescope in break of our works. One day we were talking what it would feel like observing the stars at their present state, instead of million years earlier version we are watching in telescope? Then we planned a way to simulate the 'Now" view in mobile screen. We were lacking with data resources to train our model and simulate the future conditions of the stars. When we got the links of terabytes of data stored in NASA HEASARC archive, we started to get excited to try to implement that idea. We also cherished to look at sky with sensing ability in IR, UV,X-ray or Gamma ray view. We have made a module to visualize what we wanted to feel.

Tools Used :

Game Engine for simulation : Unity

Data Surfing : HEASARC XAMIN

Training : Jupyter Notebook

3d Modelling : Blender

UI and Texture : Illustrator, Photoshop

Workflow and Diagrams : Diagrams.net

Programming Language : C#, Python

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used NASA data in six different visualization modules in different ways,

NASA DATASET Used in different Modules :

SpaceNow :

Xamin data tool

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/

We have developed an API to access HEASARC FTP datasets :

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/

Aladin lite Data tool :

https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/

Spectrum data set of stars

http://www.laserstars.org/data/index.html

http://www.laserstars.org/data/elements/index.html

http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~spex/IRTF_Spectral_Library/References_files/All.html (NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility(IRTF), Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

How age and life time of a star is determined :

https://www.universetoday.com/25038/age-of-stars/#:~:text=Essentially%2C%20astronomers%20determine%20the%20age,various%20points%20of%20their%20evolution

Celestial Photo Boom :

Gamma Ray Burst Dataset from swift and fermi :

https://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/batse/grb/

Fermi Dataset for Gamma Ray Burst :

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/bursts/

Swift Dataset for Gamma Ray Burst :

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/swift/data/grbsummary/

Fermi's Eye:

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi

See the Unseen :

Sky in different wavelength

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/multiwavelength1.html

Ripple in Spacetime:

Gravitational Wave dataset

https://www.kaggle.com/elenacuoco/the-gravitational-waves-discovery-data https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gravitational-waves/en/

Event of the Year:

API: https://gracedb.ligo.org/api/superevents/?format=json

Superevent List

https://gracedb.ligo.org/api/superevents/?format=json

https://gracedb.ligo.org/api/superevents/?format=json&count=50&start=50

Superevent Details

https://gracedb.ligo.org/api/superevents/MS201004h/?format=json

Project Demo

From the very day we started looking at the sky, we are watching the past. We are experiencing the Universe always as what happened long ago. What if, we could watch a star at its current state? What if, if we had eyes which can sense what it looks like in Infrared, UV, X-Ray or Gamma Ray Wavelengths of Electromagnetic Spectrum?

Presentation video : https://youtu.be/UD3BUUhfi0M

Play the Visualization in Web : https://spacenow.middaydreams.xyz

Download the Android mobile apk : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LxDW7Jb5F9VR1Go5RA0BcT-avX-xnfI9/view

“Space Now” is a Simulation tool to visualize HEASARC data in six different approaches :

Star Finder (Star Now)

Celestial Photo Boom

Fermi’s Eye

See the Unseen

Ripple in Spacetime

Events of the year

Life Cycle and “Now” state of a star will be visualized from predicted data learned from its spectrum . Mass, Age, Material, Size, Luminosity ,Star Category will be collected and calculated from NASA and ESA Datasets, and then, will be used to predict the future scenario using machine learning model. A user will be able watch the simulation of the star he is viewing in the sky at its present state. Further Calculation will simulate a predicted end of the star with time scale .

“Space Now” has six modules for visualization options . This visualization includes Data representation in Simulated sky in different wavelengths, Data Directory of Space events and Space observatories, simulation of how GRB and Gravitational wave are created and caught in Fermi and Swift Telescope, animated simulation of High Energy Radiation sources like Blackhole Merger, Neutron Star Merger, Supernovae, Hypernova. Sky is visualized in different wavelengths in See the Unseen Module.

Star Finder (Star Now) :

Since humans started looking at the sky, and wondering what is up there, we are always observing the past. What would it look like if we could observe the stars and celestial objects as it’s present condition?

Star Now module will simulate current state of a star pointed at sky with gyroscope and AR options of Mobile phone. It will locate the star position and show its information from HEASARC dataset. Then, when “Simulate NOW” button is pressed, it will show the probable current state of the star with information, Spectra ,Probable Life cycle and change in position in million years it’s light travelled to reach Earth in the sky .

Space Now workflow

Celestial Photo Boom:

GRB events captured by Fermi, Swift, BEPPOSAX and HETE telescopes will flash the Spherical Sky in a simulation for a given time frame . Clicking any event will load information about the specific GRB event.

Ripple in Spacetime :

This module will showcase Gravitational wave source simulation of Blackhole MergerHow SWIFT catches the data and show timescale for gravitational wave event showcasing along with a push notification for citizen scientist to get notified about new Gravitational wave event.

Fermis' Eye:

Fermi's Eye Modules contains 4 options :

1.Simulation of Neutron star Merger and generation of Gama Ray Burst.

2.Visualization of Fermi Space telescope and how it receives GRB and sends to save in HEASARC Archive .

3.Fermi Data Visualization in sky with time scale

4. Data Directory of Fermi Space Telescope, HEASARC Archive, Neutron Star Merger.

See the Unseen :

This module will visualize spherical sky and stars in co-ordinates in different wavelength like Infrared, Visible Light, Ultra Violet, X-Ray, Gamma Ray in EM spectrum. User will be able to choose between timescale and wavelengths to observe the telescope view in mobile phone screen like mobile camera has become the eye of a space telescope .

Events of the Year :

this module will showcase super events of LIGO,Virgo, Swift, Fermi observations with date project link and other data from api call.

Future Plan :

Make the App AR ready to visualize space telescope images in mobile screen in a sky sphere.
Develop the AI for professional Spectra analysis.
Analyzing and visualizing James Webb Space Telescope data in future will be exciting and fun .