The Known Universe

By Johnny Cat in Science & Tech, Travel, Video Clips on Dec 17, 2009 at 12:42 pm

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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Babycakes
Dec 17th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
it makes me think of what my astronomy professor once said, Earth is nothing more then a speck of sand on a beach. what lives on a speck of sand on a beach? us, humans. and we “say” there’s nothing out there… HA!
LisaL
Dec 17th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Really helps put in to perspective just how tiny we are.
I hope one day we’ll be able to travel the universe and find those other little specks of intelligence out there.
dooflotchie
Dec 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
This isn’t “neat”.

I’d say it’s more like “OMG-WOW-Knock-Your-Eyes-Out-Extremely-Cool”.

Great post!
Alex
Dec 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Fantastic! This is my favorite post of the day. Great find, Johnny Cat!
ByrdBrain
Dec 17th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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…
Eric1837
Dec 17th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
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.
Eric1837
Dec 17th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
“Cosmic Zoom” was made in 1968. Forgot to mention that in my comment
Johnny Cat
Dec 18th, 2009 at 1:58 am
I think my favorite part is when the zodiacs collapse. This really is an awesome piece, and kudos to kottke for finding it initially.
kombizz
Dec 18th, 2009 at 6:54 am
What a fantastice piece of work.
Thank you for sharing

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