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Credit & Copyright: American Museum of Natural History
Explanation:
What would it look like to travel across the known universe?
To help humanity visualize this, the
American Museum of Natural History has produced
a modern
movie featuring many visual highlights
of such a trip.
The video
starts in Earth's
Himalayan Mountains
and then dramatically zooms out, showing the
Earth's satellites, the
Sun, the
Solar System,
the extent of humanities
first radio signals,
the
Milky Way Galaxy,
galaxies nearby,
distant galaxies, and
quasars.
As the distant surface of the
microwave background is finally reached,
radiation is depicted that was emitted billions of light
years away and less than one million years after the Big Bang.
Frequently using the
Digital Universe Atlas, every object in the video
has been rendered to scale given the best
scientific research in 2009,
when the video was produced.
The film has similarities to the famous
Powers of Ten
video that has been
a favorite of many space enthusiasts for a generation.
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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
Publications with words: universe
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 1 Á Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe
- APOD: 2024 October 20 Á Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
- APOD: 2024 July 1 Á Time Spiral
- APOD: 2023 December 31 Á Illustris: A Simulation of the Universe
- APOD: 2023 July 5 Á A Map of the Observable Universe
- APOD: 2023 June 29 Á A Message from the Gravitational Universe
- APOD: 2023 June 4 Á Color the Universe