A. David Weigel

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interactive immersive astroviz, creative scientific storytelling: I do exciting (and) space things INTUITIVE Planetarium Director - U.S. Space & Rocket Center Astrovizicist - WorldWide Telescope

Exoplanets visualized in 3D against a planar rendering of the Milky Way galaxy. The Kepler field is apparent, with a higher density of exoplanet discoveries in a conical shape emanating from the solar system.
Lots of dots (or are they exoplanet detections??) visualized in a 3D Milky Way galaxy view
INTUITIVE Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center exhibit hall booth complete with Space Camp carpet with a person laying on it with arms on hips in setup triumph
INTUITIVE Planetarium lobby in a spaceberry glow with white letterts spelling NASA
gentle and continuous zoom deeper into the nebulosity of the Orion Nebula featuring imagery from JWST, Hubble, VLT, and more.
25th anniversary celebration of the Chandra X-ray Observatory with the Crab Nebula on a planetarium dome.
Artist representation of stellar birth as a nebula collapses into a protostar and then nuclear fusion ignites. The Tarantula Nebula, imaged by JWST's NIRCam, sets the backhround of the visualization. Created by the INTUITIVE Planetarium at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
The viewer gently floats towards the nebulous pillars of creation imaged by JWST.
Pillars of Creation, cropped to the 18 hexagon shape of JWST's mirrors, animated to change individual hexagons from JWST to HST and back.
Horsehead Nebula, imaged by the Euclid Space Telescope, overlaid on the Digitized Sky Survey 2 in context of the background sky.
JWST Crab Nebula visualized in context of the background sky in WorlcWide Telescope Constellations
Three individuals gaze up seemingly pondering in a LED planetarium dome with the earth out of focus in the background on the screen.
Three individuals stand in front of an LED Planetarium screen with the title scene for To Bennu and Back: OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return. Logos from the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and Cosm are visible overtop of a view of the asteroid Bennu in the foreground and a bright Milky Way sky (Gaia data) in the background.
Silhouette of a man watching the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule streak above Earth towards the Utah desert viewed on an LED planetarium screen.
The Southern Ring Nebula, imaged but the JWST NIRCam is stunningly stretched across a 67 ft diameter planetarium dome. 250 guests gaze upward, captivated by the detail of this stellar death throe.