Mythology

THE FIRES OF HEAVEN
HIDDEN IN THE DUST
If the ancient people had
an ability to peep through the heaven's door, they would
create myths and legends
full of dusty and dirty places.

Today, thanks to powerful telescopes, we know about
new worlds born out
of dust, and old worlds
dying and turning into
dust. Once upon a time, our
own body was nothing else than
such a dust floating in the space around the newborn Sun,
waiting for its destiny in this
cosmic cycle of life and death.

If we want to study the origin
of life on the Earth then we
need to look at the other worlds
that are just now opening their first chapter of Genesis. However,
the view reveals complex opaque dust clouds, with the seed of planet formation hidden inside.

Thus, the correct description
of the heaven's dawn depends on
our ability to calculate the transfer of light and heat through such a cloud.

LELUYA is a computer
code, named after a mighty
goddess of lightning, which can perform these calculations



"Bipolar outflow on the asymptotic giant branch - the case of IRC+10011"
Vinkovic et al. 2004, MNRAS, 352, 852-862.
ADS


"Near infrared and the inner regions of protoplanetary disks"
Vinkovic et al., 2005, ApJ, submitted
astro-ph


Protoplanetary disk images
(1 to 50 microns wavelengths)