Download now on the Google App store! Explore our Universe and some of the objects in it through the different wavelengths of light. From Radio, to infrared, to optical and X-Ray, our universe looks different in each type of light. Turn your smartphone in to a 3D virtual reality headset using Google Cardboard and explore the wonders and mysteries of our Universe in Our Universe In Light VR.
Learn more about the amazing objects we can see in the universe through information and fact panels by each object. Learn why we need to look at the Universe in different types of light, what this light tells us and what telescopes we need to use. Or just look around our Universe and be amazed by its beauty and scale.
This app is in both English and Welsh. You can change the language of the information on the main screen.
Full Credits:
"Lovell Telescope" by Mike Peel; Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester.. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lovell_Telescope.jpg#/media/File:Lovell_Telescope.jpg
"BarnardLoopHunterWilson" by Hewholooks - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BarnardLoopHunterWilson.jpg#/media/File:BarnardLoopHunterWilson.jpg
"ESO Centaurus A LABOCA" by ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray) - http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/ESOPIA/Galaxies/phot-03a-09-fullres.tif.html. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ESO_Centaurus_A_LABOCA.jpg#/media/File:ESO_Centaurus_A_LABOCA.jpg
"Andromeda Galaxy (with h-alpha)" by Adam Evans - M31, the Andromeda Galaxy (now with h-alpha)Uploaded by NotFromUtrecht. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg#/media/File:Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg
"HST-SM4" by Ruffnax (Crew of STS-125) - http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-119/hires/s125e011848.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HST-SM4.jpeg#/media/File:HST-SM4.jpeg
"IRAS image", http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/system/projects/images/15/original/IRAS_Sq.jpg?1291155530
"Fermi telescope illustration 01" by NASA/Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/multimedia/glast_rendering.html (image link). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fermi_telescope_illustration_01.jpg#/media/File:Fermi_telescope_illustration_01.jpg
"Front view of the European Space Agency Planck satellite" by ESA/AOES Medialab - http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/01/Front_view_of_the_Planck_satellite. Via Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Front_view_of_the_European_Space_Agency_Planck_satellite.jpg#/media/File:Front_view_of_the_European_Space_Agency_Planck_satellite.jpg
"ROSAT", by NASA, http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/3/1317656673633/Rosat-satellite-006.jpg
"WISE artist concept (PIA17254, crop)" by NASA/JPL-Caltech - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17254 (image link). Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WISE_artist_concept_(PIA17254,_crop).jpg#/media/File:WISE_artist_concept_(PIA17254,_crop).jpg
"Small Magellanic Cloud (Digitized Sky Survey 2)" by ESA/Hubble and Digitized Sky Survey 2 - http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/html/heic0514c.html (direct link). Via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Small_Magellanic_Cloud_(Digitized_Sky_Survey_2).jpg#/media/File:Small_Magellanic_Cloud_(Digitized_Sky_Survey_2).jpg
"Large.mc.arp.750pix". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Large.mc.arp.750pix.jpg#/media/File:Large.mc.arp.750pix.jpg
"Vela Pulsar jet" by NASA/CXC/PSU/G.Pavlov et al. - http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects/heapow/archive/compact_objects/vela_pulsar_jet.html. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vela_Pulsar_jet.jpg#/media/File:Vela_Pulsar_jet.jpg
"Artist's impression of the Milky Way (updated - annotated)" by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESO/R. Hurt - http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1339e/. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_the_Milky_Way_(updated_-_annotated).jpg#/media/File:Artist%27s_impression_of_the_Milky_Way_(updated_-_annotated).jpg
