"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see."
There’s <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/galaxy-3d-images-featuring-queen/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">something about space</a> that captures the imagination of scientists and artists alike. Just ask astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson and astronomer Brian May (yes, THAT Brian May, guitarist of Queen). In their new book <a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/islands-in-infinity" rel="noopener noreferrer">Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D</a>, they turn flat images of the galaxies to three dimensional spacescapes that leap off the page. 
Host Flora Lichtman talks with Ward-Thompson and May about the enchanting nature of space and the collision of art and astronomy. And yes, they get into the music.
Guests:
 Dr. Brian May is an astronomer and the guitarist of Queen.
 Dr. Derek Ward-Thompson is an astrophysicist at the University of Lancashire in England.
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