Tag: visualization

• An exoplanet orrery (Science Advent 14)

  (Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image or video and description.) Day 14 An orrery is a mechanical way to visualize the positions of the planets in their orbit around the Sun. The most marvelous orreries are works of art in brass, geared so that a turn of a crank or other…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 14, 2013

  Astronomy

  Advent 2013, exoplanets, visualization