![]() ![]() The image of Old Cabell Hall under the Milky Way bookends nicely with this breathtaking framing of the Rotunda under the Heart and Soul Nebulae, which Gilmore put together last year. “One wonders how many other centers of consciousness and thought may lie among the hundreds of billions of other star systems in our galaxy.” “Old Cabell Hall, a familiar local center of human thought, is rendered against the starry center of our vast, home galaxy, the Milky Way. “I love this image because it is an intriguing representation of our place in the cosmos,” Majewski said. ![]() He set out to capture the Milky Way’s galactic center – the star-crowded middle of our home galaxy – over an iconic UVA building, and he did just that, said Steven Majewski, an astronomy professor at the University whose research includes galactic structure and kinematics, and especially the stellar populations and evolution of the Milky Way. The final product – as seen in the main photo of this story – proved Gilmore wasn’t distracted by the music, nor the students roaming the Lawn (he reported no streakers, despite being out there from 8 p.m. The concert just happened to take place under clear skies, the conditions Gilmore, over the course of a couple weeks in August, had been waiting for to attempt his shoot. ![]() Well behind him, the Flying Virginians covered The Who’s “I Can See for Miles” at the Rotunda’s base. “This is kind of surreal,” Gilmore said from South Lawn as he peered into his camera’s viewfinder. Yes, Rotunda Sing, a UVA tradition that brings together the University’s a cappella groups for a Lawn performance during the first week of fall semester, provided the soundtrack to Gilmore’s latest photo shoot on Grounds. ![]()
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