The Known Universe - Neatorama

Take a journey billions of light years away and back home again. The American Museum of Natural History has this video called The Known Universe that starts near snowy Mt. Everest and, like Powers of Ten, pulls out and away from Earth to the rest of what we know is out there.

The structure of The Known Universe is based on precise, scientifically-accurate observations and research. The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History maintains the Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe.

Directed by Carter Emmart, this clip begs for full screen and HD. via kottke.

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What a fantastice piece of work.
Thank you for sharing

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I think my favorite part is when the zodiacs collapse. This really is an awesome piece, and kudos to kottke for finding it initially.

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"Cosmic Zoom" was made in 1968. Forgot to mention that in my comment

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Gorgeous update on "Cosmic Zoom", an 8 min. animated short directed by Eva Szasz for the National Film Board of Canada.

Watch on NFB site for best quality:
http://beta.nfb.ca/film/cosmic_zoom

Available also on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oF18rk_H0Y

But the colors are very washed out even in HQ.

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Holy crap, I thought we were going to fly right through a super-nova or bounce too close to an asteroid for a second there...

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