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Cosmic Clouds 3-D: Where Stars are Born

  • David J. Eicher,
  • Brian May &
  • J.-P. Metsävainio
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC COMPANY: 2020. 192PP. £35.00

The team that brought the gripping story of the space race between the Soviet and US space programmes to life with stunning three-dimensional (3D) imagery in Mission Moon 3-D is back, this time setting their sights much farther: the birthplaces of stars. As before, Cosmic Clouds 3-D uses stereoscopic images (pairs of photographs taken with slightly shifted points of view for depth perception) to great effect. However, no cosmic-scale camera exists to take stereo photographs of molecular clouds in deep space. Instead, writer David Eicher and creative director Brian May have collaborated with astrophotographer J.-P. Metsävainio, who creates 3D images of celestial objects using a combination of “known scientific facts, deduction, and some artistic creativity” (more on that later).

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Fig. 1: The Lagoon nebula.

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J.-P. Metsävainio

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