RAVE press release 2003/01 Pictures


The logo of the RAVE collaboration


The RAVE survey's telescope: the AAO's 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in eastern Australia. Image: (c) 1977-2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory. Photograph by David Malin.


Modeler's view of our Milky Way Galaxy (at the center) in a lumpy halo with many satellites. Photo: NASA. Simulation: Stefan Gottlöber/AIP


Formation sequence (from top left to bottom right) of a Milky-Way type galaxy as obtained form large computer simulations. The galaxy is successively built-up by accretion of satellites (see also animation). Simulation: Matthias Steinmetz/AIP


Matthias Steinmetz
Last modified: Fri May 30 13:13:56 CEST 2003