Hey, it's Flora Lichtenen, and you're listening to Science Friday.

As you know, we live in the Milky Way galaxy, one of an estimated 200 billion galaxies out there.

You know the pictures, you've seen them, the cloudy, beautiful spirals?

Well, now a new book takes these images to a higher dimension.

Islands in Infinity, galaxies 3D brings space to stereoscopic life, turning those flat

galactic postcards into three-dimensional spacecapes. I've got the authors with me.

Dr. Derek Ward Thompson is an astrophysicist

at the University of Lancashire in England

and astronomer Dr. Brian May.

He's had a circuitous career in astronomy

because he was busy for 30 years.

You know, doing this.

We will, we will rock you.

We will, we will rock you.

Yes, Brian May, as in the guitarist of Queen, that Brian May.

Welcome to Science Friday.

Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for inviting us.

Thank you, Flora. Okay, Brian, I don't know if this is charming or embarrassing, but I think on this show,

your astronomer credentials may hold as much weight as being in one of the most iconic bands of all time.

So thank you for coming to nerd out with us today.

Thank you, Flores.

My pleasure, absolutely.

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