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Credit & Copyright: Charles & Ray Eames
(Eames Office)
Explanation:
How different does the universe look on very small scales?
On very 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 been officially posted to YouTube and embedded
here.
From a picnic blanket
near Chicago out past the
Virgo Cluster of Galaxies,
every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a
factor of ten times larger on each side.
The 9-minute video then reverses, zooming 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.
Ray and husband Charles Eames, 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
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