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20-02-2018
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Behind the scenes of The Big Bang Theory

Submitter: Georgina Maffey
Description: The 2017 SKA calendar that can be found hanging in many astronomers offices has now made an appearance in the office of one of the most famous fictitious astrophysicists, Rajesh (Raj) Koothrapalli. Many will know that Raj is a character in The Big Bang Theory, an American comedy series that sees the lives of five friends play out against a scientifically accurate backdrop.

On Friday 9th February "The Confidence Erosion" aired on Veronica, with December 2017 of the SKA calendar hanging behind Raj's desk.

The simulations that can be seen stem from work presented in the scientific paper 'Simulated galactic methanol maser distribution to constrain Milky Way parameters' published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal as part of a project known as BeSSel (Bar and Spiral Spacial Legacy Survey). The study was conducted by Luis Henry Quiroga Nuñez and Huib van Langevelde and produced a catalogue of information on high mass stars in the Milky Way observed from the Northern hemisphere. The calendar image builds on this to demonstrate how many radio sources in the Southern hemisphere it will be possible to observe once the SKA is constructed.
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