Aladin Lite tours

Guided tours through the Ginsburg group’s data at the University of Florida: ALMA, JWST, VLA, and single-dish views of star formation in the Galactic Center and the disk. Each tour flies between positions in Aladin Lite, fading between image layers as it goes.

Press Open to step through a tour yourself, or Full screen for a kiosk view that plays on its own — useful on a display in the hallway. Add ?random=true to start at a random stop.

Narrative tours

How Do Stars Form?

general audience · 27 stops

The Ginsburg group’s research told as a story, from the Galactic Center to individual protostars, with the students behind each result.

Star Formation in the Galaxy

colloquium · 35 stops

The technical version: ACES, JWST, and VLA/ALMA results on the CMZ, Sgr B2, W51, and the young massive clusters.

Sgr B2 Deep South

talk / interactive · 8 stops

JWST and ALMA on the same three fields, from Nazar Budaiev’s CARTA figure. Click a white box to zoom into it, or let it play through.

CMZ Zoom Animation

talk · 7 stops

Spitzer to ACES to JWST: the Central Molecular Zone, the ACES footprint, then a zoom into one dust-ridge cloud.

Mysteries of the CMZ

talk / general audience · 16 stops

Four unexplained things in the Galactic Center: the MUBLO, the “fluff” in Sgr B2, the “smudge” in Cloud C, and the ionized streaks.

Region tours

ACES CMZ Tour

survey · 28 stops

The ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey across the Galactic Center, molecule by molecule.

ACES Early Results

survey · 24 stops

Early ACES science: the line mosaics and what each tracer picks out.

JWST Central Molecular Zone

survey · 13 stops

JWST NIRCam and MIRI coverage of the Galactic Center clouds.

Sgr B2, JWST + ALMA

region · 10 stops

The most active star-forming cloud in the Galaxy at infrared and millimeter wavelengths.

W51

region · 63 stops

A massive protocluster in the disk: JWST colors over VLA and ALMA continuum.

Westerlund 2

region · 8 stops

A young massive cluster, JWST NIRCam and MIRI compared with HST.

JWST Star Formation

general audience

A wide sweep of JWST star-formation images, from Orion outward.

Herbig-Haro Objects with JWST

general audience

Protostellar jets and the shocks they drive into their parent clouds.

SPT & APEX, then ACES

survey

Single-dish submillimeter coverage of the CMZ handing off to the ALMA mosaic.

Wavelength explorers

The Brick

slider · 1 stops

Slide through JWST filters on G0.253+0.016, linear stretch.

The Brick (other stretches)

slider · 1 stops

The same filter set with logarithmic and alternative scalings.

Sgr B2

slider · 1 stops

JWST filters across Sgr B2, linear stretch.

Sgr B2 (other stretches)

slider · 1 stops

Sgr B2 with logarithmic and alternative scalings.

The Sickle

slider · 1 stops

The Sickle near the Quintuplet cluster, linear and logarithmic.

W51

slider · 1 stops

JWST filters across W51, linear stretch.

W51 (other stretches)

slider · 1 stops

W51 with logarithmic and alternative scalings.

W51 (stars subtracted)

slider · 1 stops

W51 filter triplets from the pipeline residual mosaics, fitted stars removed.

Westerlund 2

slider · 1 stops

Every adjacent JWST filter triplet across Westerlund 2, F115W to F1130W.

The Sickle (linear)

slider · 1 stops

Adjacent JWST filter triplets across the Sickle, F187N to F1500W, linear stretch.

Arches

slider · 1 stops

Adjacent filter triplets across the Arches cluster, F212N to F770W.

Sgr A*

slider · 1 stops

Adjacent JWST filter triplets around Sgr A*, F115W to F1500W.

Sgr C

slider · 1 stops

Adjacent NIRCam filter triplets across Sgr C, F115W to F480M.

Clouds E/F

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Adjacent JWST filter triplets across Clouds E and F, F162M to F2100W.