by Professor Derek Ward-Thompson and edited by Brian.
3-D pictures are the creation of J-P Metsävainio,
to be published by The London Stereoscopic Company, Autumn 2025
With more than 200 colour photographs from the world’s great telescopes, both terrestrial and spaceborne, the stunning coffee table book, will provide a mesmerising introduction to the formation, nature, evolution and classification of some of the 200 billion galaxies that inhabit the observable Universe.
We’re taken on a journey, travelling through weird and wonderful shapes as great galaxies collide and merge in chaotic and extraordinarily forms. And, moving out towards the edge of the visible Universe, we examine how galaxies gather in clusters and superclusters as we look outwards and back in time towards the beginning of the Universe at the Big Bang.
Each copy comes complete with an Owl Stereoscopic Viewer, designed by Brian May which will bring the images to life in fantastic 3-D.
Brian May says “It’s been giving me great pleasure to share a chunk of my life’s work – combining some of the magic of Queen’s Glory Days with the alchemy of stereoscopy 3-D – on view every week day at London’s Proud Galleries. Some of the 3-D images had been hiding in unmounted 35 mm film – rediscovered so many years later, and so evocative of those early days of Queen. The unique ‘virtual reality’ of these in-depth views brings those wonderful, colourful early musical moments so vividly back to life. Out of our successful exhibition (and London’s first new stereoscopic shop for 170 years!) came the idea of offering a limited edition of high quality enlargement prints of some of those early images.”
