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"Every day we're not in the bigger space is a day of lost community", firm founding partner Bryan Young recalls Galaxy founder and CEO Mike Novogratz saying, "but we also need to aim for an excitement that's unlike a financial institution." When Young showed it to Novogratz, his client likened the ceiling to cryptocurrency's combination of the familiar and the futuristic. Young identified the elevator lobby and reception as the best spaces for unique expression, comparing them to a threshold, where occupants may check their preconceptions of financial services. [Extracted from the article]

The article highlights how a 40-billion-pixel Orion Nebula visualization was rendered for a 9.11-million- pixel display at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Orion Nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas six light-years across, some 1,500 light-years from Earth, in Milky Way Galaxy. It is the closest example of a stellar nursery in which the majority of new stars are formed in the galaxy. More than 1,500 stars make up the Trapezium cluster at the heart of the nebula. Volume rendering is the process of converting a 3D volume into a 2D image. Before deciding which renderer to use, the rendering complexity was analyzed. For each individual image on the dome, 9.1 million pixels would have to be rendered. The visualization would run 2.5 minutes, which, at 30 frames per second, would require 40 billion pixels, or more than 100GB of images. Tens or hundreds of millions of pixels enable all kinds of visualization in diverse scientific fields, including chemistry and biology besides astronomy and cosmology.

The article presents the insights of Astronomer Thomas Gold of Cornell University in New York regarding the existence of life on the earth. Gold believes that life existed on earth for about a billion years ago from very simple forms of microscopic size to the level of technological competence which allowed descendants of those microbes to travel outside their own solar system. It also mentions the steady-state theory which holds that space has no boundaries while time has no beginning or end.

Features the enabling technology used to create the `digital galaxy' at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Theater in New York City. Computer hardware and software to create simulations of galaxies; Centerpiece of the Space Theater show.

Presents a list of upcoming events related to astronomy. Consideration of the 14th annual Weekend Under the Stars event hosted by the Cheyenne Astronomical Society and Laramie Astronomical Society and Space Observers; Demonstrations, lectures, and workshops at the RocheStar Fest in Ionia, New York; Star Parties in Illinois and Washington; Events at the astronomical observatory near Franklin, Pennsylvania; Others.

Describes the computer simulation methods used to created to create the `digital galaxy' at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Space Theater in New York City. Tools used to visualize data sets; Approaches to creating images.