Now, Click Selfies With Galaxies

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    • Publish Date: Aug 23 2018 6:45PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 23 2018 6:45PM
Now, Click Selfies With Galaxies
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NASA has created two virtual reality apps that allow users to take selfies in front of gorgeous cosmic locations, and explore the only known exoplanet system to host seven roughly Earth-size planets.

The Selfies app and Exoplanet Excursions virtual reality app were released to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Spitzer's incredible discoveries and amazing images are at the center of these new products, the US space agency said in a statement.

The new Selfies app lets you generate snapshots of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in front of gorgeous cosmic locations, like the Orion Nebula or the centre of the Milky Way galaxy.

The app also provides information about the science behind these stunning images. There are currently 30 eye-catching images to choose from, all taken by Spitzer.

More images from the agency's other science and human spaceflight missions will be added in the future.

In the Exoplanet Excursions virtual reality app, VR users are taken on a guided tour of the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system.

TRAPPIST-1 is the only known exoplanet system to host seven roughly Earth-size planets. Spitzer played a major role in detecting these planets and providing information that has helped scientists learn about the planets' likely compositions.

The TRAPPIST-1 system is too far away for telescopes to directly observe these planets, but this VR experience features artists' impressions of what the planets might look like. These impressions are based on data from Spitzer and other telescopes that have studied the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Users of the app are navigated around five of the seven planets, surrounded by the blackness of space and the faint lights of distant stars.


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Arav Jain The Global Edge School,Madhapur

would love to try this app

Arav Jain The Global Edge School,Madhapur

Discovering every nook and corner of space would be delightful. Looking at the gorgeous stars twinkling like diamonds in the sky with virtual reality would most probably be a lot of fun.

Ninaad Narendra Bhat DR. RADHAKRISHNAN-MALAD(W)

If you install Blippar, the app will have a game as ‘Solar System’. You can get information about stars and planets. There is a website named moon.nasa.org. You can see every nook and corer of the moon

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