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Credit & Copyright: Charles & Ray Eames
(Eames Office)
Explanation:
How different does the universe look on small, medium, and large scales?
The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons.
That film, Powers of Ten, originally created in the 1960s, has now been officially posted
to YouTube and embedded
above.
Please click the above arrow to see the nine minute movie for yourself.
From a picnic blanket
near Chicago out past the
Virgo Cluster of Galaxies,
every ten seconds the film pans out to show a square a factor of ten times larger
on each side.
The video then reverses, panning back in a factor of ten every two seconds and ends
up inside a single proton.
The Powers of Ten sequence is actually based on the book
Cosmic View by
Kees Boeke in 1957, as is a
similar but mostly animated film
Cosmic Zoom that was also
created in the late 1960s.
The changing perspectives are so
enthralling and educational that sections have been
recreated using more modern computerized techniques, including the first few
minutes of the movie
Contact, and in a short
digital video called
The Known Universe created last year for the
American Museum of Natural History.
Ray and husband Charles, the film's creators, were known as quite visionary
spirits and even invented
their own popular chair.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: universe - galaxies - atomic nuclei
Publications with words: universe - galaxies - atomic nuclei
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