Frank Summers Space Telescope Science Institute 3700 San Martin Dr Baltimore, MD  21218 (410) 338-4749 (410) 338-4767 [FAX] summers@stsci.edu http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/

A Hubble IMAX Short Film

Welcome to my home page. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to keep it up-to-date or to do fancy designs. Still, I hope you can find a few things of interest here.

Popular, Noteworthy, and New Pages

It's Not Your Parents' Solar System -- A talk about the new discoveries and new views in planetary astronomy. Updated March 2008

Latest Results from the Great Observatories -- A talk on NASA's Great Observatories (Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra) presented at the 2008 NSTA National Conference. Includes slides from co-presenters Michael Pahre and Simon Steel. NEW March 2008.

Hubble: The Science Behind the Images -- Take a journey into the full beauty of Hubble's images and learn what these objects are, why they are important, and how they help advance our understanding of the universe. October 2006.

Astronomical Storms: Beyond the Extreme -- Even the most extreme weather on Earth pales in comparison to the truly astronomical storms found on worlds elsewhere in our solar system. This talk presents both the causes and the effects of the worst weather known to science. July 2006.

Globular Star Cluster Exploration -- This scientific visualization portrays the activities within a small globular star cluster over a period of about three hundred thousand years. June 2005

IMAX Short Film - Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time -- A three minute large format film exploring the diversity, distribution, and evolution of galaxies in the universe

Cosmic Cruising 2 -- A visualization of the "cosmic web" - the large scale structure of the universe

Galaxy Collision -- A movie of two galaxies colliding visualized using Hollywood-level rendering programs and scientifically accurate shader code

• Fisheye Lens Shader for Renderman - Updated February 2005

Last modified: April 2, 2008