228 INDEX planetary nebulae, 94 planetary orbits, 37, 133 Play Button, 21 Pleiades star cluster, 51 Point of Interest, 28, 153 changing, 15, 50 Point Toggle Button, 17 Polygon Toggle Button, 17, 38 Polysides Slider, 18 Polysize Slider, 18 proplyd, 103 Proxima Centauri, 40 pulsars, 58, 91 quasar, 148, 166, 198 discovery, 198 quasi-stellar objects, see quasar radio light, 215 radio sphere, 42, 107 redshift, 149, 150, 212 Reference Time Display, 20 right ascension, 31 Rotate Flight Mode, 14, 28 Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy, 153 see all command, 48 see command, 46, 144 selecting data points, 15, 40 Shapley, Harlow, 34, 88, 127, 153 slider Alpha, 18, 33 Censize, 18, 50 Flight Path, 21 FOV, 18, 36 Labelmin, 18 Labelsize, 18 Polysides, 18 Polysize, 18 range linear, 19 logarithmic, 19 Slum, 18, 41 Speed, 20 Slider Menu, 18 Slider Scale Button, 18 Sloan <strong>Digital</strong> Sky Survey, 196 galaxies, 164, 196 quasars, 165, 200 stars, 140 Slum Slider, 18, 41 Small Magellanic Cloud, 154 spacecraft trajectories, 38, 135 speed of light, 207 Speed Slider, 20 Speed Toggle Button, 20 spiral galaxy, 147, 176 star brightness, 44 color, 52 distance uncertainty, 49 luminosity, 45 orbit, 142 parallax, 48, 209 stars data group, 66, 169
INDEX 229 stellar distance uncertainty, 49, 73 stellar orbits, 142 supercluster, 163, 191 superclusters, 191 supernova remnants, 58, 99 T dwarf, 80 textcment command, 30, 42 Texture Toggle Button, 17 thresh command, 44, 47, 155 Time Control Buttons, 20 time controls Back Button, 20 Feed Button, 20 Reference Time Display, 20 Speed Slider, 20 Speed Toggle Button, 20 Time Control Buttons, 20 Time Dial, 20 Time Display, 20 Trip Button, 20 Time Dial, 20 Time Display, 20 toggle button Box, 17 Label, 17 Point, 17 Polygon, 17, 38 Speed, 20 Texture, 17 Translate Flight Mode, 14, 29 trigonometric parallax, 209 Trip Button, 20 Tully density surface, 183 Tully galaxy catalog, 156, 157, 180 Two-degree Field Survey, 193 two-micron all-sky survey, 119 ultraviolet light, 215 <strong>Universe</strong> age, 151 baby picture, 203 Big Bang, 149, 167, 201 expansion, 151, 202, 213 large-scale structure, 148 look-back time, 213 origin, 149, 167, 201 user interface, 16–21 Virgo galaxy cluster, 156 Virgo Supercluster, 163 visible all-sky survey, 33, 111, 171 visible light, 215 void, 158 Voyager spacecraft, 38 Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, 150, 202 WMAP, see Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe X-ray light, 215
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