The Known Universe
I thought 14 hours on a plane seemed long. The video below is called “The Known Universe”, part of an exhibition for the American Museum of Natural History. It zooms out from the Himalayas to the outer reaches of the known universe. The video is overwhelming when you think about our place and significance in the greater scheme of things.
From the YouTube description:
“The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. “
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