Once upon a time, my grandfather gave me an old book. It was titled: The universe in which we live – The infinite heavens. Published in 1966. To this day it is one of my most prized possessions. It described the current-day understanding of the various types of stars and comets.
Many years later I backed a project… to bring the digital Milky Way Galaxy to life, And it has gone way beyond anything we could just imagine.
I have finally realized a long held dream. Of visiting the Heart of our Galaxy: Sagittarius A*. The true mysterious center of all existence in our world. In VR in the best possible, most realistic way. The center of gravity for our entire Galaxy. A massive Black Hole with a radius of about 12 million km. And with an estimated mass approximately 4 million times that of our Sun. A total of about 104.000 Light-years was covered on this Journey, and much more traveling is still to be done before I return to earth. I’ve have seen the sky completely empty of stars, with the entire Milky Way no more then a small stripe of lights in the sky. I have seen the heavens, slowly become filled and overwhelmed with stars again as I approached the heart of our galaxy again. Then I found myself in the center region, with more stars in the sky then I ever even imagined possible.. Then Finally, The wonder at the center, came into view
This has been such an eye-opening journey. Every person who grew up with a telescope should do this in VR, and marvel at this. Even though it’s just a digital representation. It’s fantastic to actually experience these locations as if we are there.