High-Level Project Summary
With the advancement of technology and now also the use of Metaverse, the team created an application that will bring the two together and make it easier for people to better visualize and understand these night movements.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The year passes, the year passes, the stars of the night sky remain static and the constellations always remain the same. The truth is that the stars never seem to change places from our perspective, but subtle changes happen all the time before our eyes that we cannot see. With that in mind, five Unisuam students from the Marketing course, interested in the world of astrology and technology, got together and thought about the project "Quero Ver Você Brilhar", which aims to create a tool to help people understand and see these changes more clearly.
With the "I want to see you shine" app, the team has developed a methodology that will explain stellar variability and help the user to understand how dynamic the night sky is. After that, the user will be able to see all this phenomenon through the Metaverse link that the application provides, for an even more complete experience.
Space Agency Data
Based on Henrietta Swan's vision, she observed that twenty-five stars called Cepheids had unusual periodic lighting and dimming behaviors. From this information, the researchers were able to time their peaks and troughs in brightness, which determined the time it took to lighten, darken and lighten again. Astronomers have identified that the phenomenon does not only occur in our galaxy, but also in others. Recently space telescopes such as the Hubble Telescopes have been used to precisely observe these behaviors of stars.
With that in mind, the team came up with the idea of replicating the telescope idea through Metaverse technology, so that the user feels like they have the same experience as astronomers.
Hackathon Journey
Being able to understand and see something that is not in our everyday life is amazing and that's what Space Apps has given us. We always had the feeling that stars were static and people moved, and now we can understand that stars have their own motions. What inspired us to choose this challenge was certainly understanding and being able to share with others this same vision of the mysteries of the universe and we found that amazing.
We would like to thank our faculty Unisuam and Polén Unisuam for this learning initiative. And also to our mentors and colleagues for their participation in the development of the project.
References
- https://citacoes.in/citacoes/1813151-henrietta-swan-leavitt-since-the-cepheid-variables-are-probably-at-near/
- https://sci.esa.int/web/hubble/-/variable-stars-in-hubble-s-sky
- https://youtu.be/Es6-P9o1qO0
- http://astro.if.ufrgs.br/vialac/barnards.gif
- https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
quotes:
Since the [Cepheid] variables are probably at nearly the same distance from the Earth, their periods are apparently associated with their actual emission of light, as determined by their mass, density, and surface brightness.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
credits: https://citacoes.in/autores/henrietta-swan-leavitt/
Tags
#stars, #galaxy, #art, #shine, #cepheid, #unissuam