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ever wonder how astronomers get those

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amazing pictures from space telescopes

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it's not quite as simple as pulling out

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a camera and snapping a Kodak moment as

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the visualization scientist for NASA's

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Spitzer Space Telescope and Galaxy

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Evolution Explorer dr. Robert hurt

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translates the information from

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spacecraft into extraordinary images

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that help us understand the cosmos well

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what we generally do is we'll start with

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the core of the sciences that look at

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the data will look at the published

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paper that tells what the astronomers

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discover and then what we want to do is

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get into that negative result that thing

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that we're trying to teach the public

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NASA Spitzer Space Telescope observes

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infrared light the Galaxy Evolution

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Explorer studies ultraviolet light when

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the spacecraft sends us an image it's

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actually just a bunch of numbers it's

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it's numbers that capture how bright

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each part of the sky is at a particular

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wavelength of light one that we can't

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see hurt is an astronomer and an artist

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he uses his computer to ship things that

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are invisible to our eyes and makes them

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visible so what I have to do is take

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this data which effectively counts as as

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black-and-white images that come through

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colored filters on the tall scope and

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what we have to do this take these these

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colors at the I can't see and assign

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them in two colors that the eye can see

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and when we do that we can build up what

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we call a representative color image red

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shows heat from hot dust blue show star

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light which is even hotter and green the

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fluorescent light of organic molecules

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suddenly we see things around the

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universe that we'd never seen before but

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what if the story doesn't have a picture

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that was the case with a galaxy

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discovery that showed black holes stifle

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the formation of new stars sometimes we

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end up with with science stories they're

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actually extremely difficult to tell

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just from the data what's a

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visualization artists to do

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literally have to go back to the drawing

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board to tell the story hurts colleague

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Tim pile created this artist concept of

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a black hole we wouldn't claim that

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these things that we have visualized in

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our artists conceptions are exactly what

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these things look like because literally

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we don't know but what we can do is get

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as close as we understand today a

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spitzer study uncovered evidence of

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planet Earth around a dead star though

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you'd hardly know it by looking at a

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graph so hurt creating an animation of a

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star that dies in a fiery blast and the

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aftermath it has to tell the story in an

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exciting way but also has to be true to

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the science has to be realistic armed

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with science creativity and inspiration

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visualization scientists and artists are

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taking us to distant reaches of the

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universe we've done visualizations to

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show planets around other stars you've

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shown but sunsets would look like in

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exotic systems astronomers today are

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solving some the most interesting

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mysteries in the history of mankind and

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if we can visually make that exciting to