The Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization
American Museum of Natural History
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*UPDATED FOR 2023* You can now fly through the known universe in immersive 360 video here: https://youtu.be/N79TowJOHHE
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 film, created by the Museum, was part of a 2010 exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan.
Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/
Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS
Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott
Music: Suke Cerulo
For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
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 film, created by the Museum, was part of a 2010 exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan.
Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/
Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS
Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott
Music: Suke Cerulo
For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory
UPDATED FOR 2023 You can now fly through the known universe in immersive 360 video here: https://youtu.be/N79TowJOHHE
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@rj5848
Respect for the cameraman who went that far beyond in the universe and also came back to make this video possible
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@MrFutago87
I couldn't even blink while watching this.
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@tectzas
The amount of comments of how small, insignificant, puny and worthless us humans, and especially a single human, is too damn high! The fact that this species that were are all a part of has the capability to analyze, classify, comprehend and ultimately appreciate this existence is beautiful. It's something we should sit back and think how lucky we are to even be watching a video like this and communicating at light speed with one another about our thoughts about it. We're all magnificent beings.
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@missxchief
I find this both comforting and terrifying.
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@crunchy1044
Looking at it this way makes all these issues people have seem to not matter. Can't we all just focus on what extremely incredible accomplishments human beings have made since we've been here we're so small compared to this universe but that we have made something of ourselves and evolved is so impressive.
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@ruby8903
I know I'm supposed to feel insignificant, but seeing this huge vastness of basically empty space, gas etc, and how we haven't found any sign of life yet, it actually makes me feel very special and rare. It's a privilege to be alive and to be able to learn about this universe.
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@Etiainen
...and then there are humans, waging wars over a few kilometres of land...
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@OfficialSukeCerulo
So proud to have made the music for this! Such a wonderful video. Thanks AMNH
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@ebc3c522bd0f
And yet people still thinks that we're alone....
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@tetrapod9621
As humans we have accomplished so much! Just imagine what Galileo, Kepler or Newton would have thought if we could show them this! Watching this masterpiece is such a humbling and profoundly emotional experience. You could even say it is 'spiritual'. To know that we are not just living 'in' the Universe, but that we ARE A PART of the it, and that the Cosmos is of an unimaginably colossal scale is one of the true blessings of living in this modern era! Our world and star were condensed from stardust, and life arose on the planetary surface and developed consciousness, awareness, compassion. As Carl Sagan once said: "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
I'll end this with a line from one of my favourite songs - Every Age by Jose Gonzalez: "We don't choose where we're born, we don't choose in what pocket or form, but can, learn to know, ourselves on this globe in the void..."
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@polaroidstyles9348
This is strangely calming.
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@Tbman00
I knew it. Coming back to home is always faster than going somewhere.
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@marendenison3391
amazing to think that the whole of the known universe can be represented on a small section of a computer screen.
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@haileypatrishV
Literally, nothing matters anymore. All my tiny little problems melted away.
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@iLiveExtreme
This made me cry, honestly. Such an amazing feeling, unexplainable and can't be compared to any other feeling.
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@Kragatar
2:37 Really illustrates the scale of the universe, and the immense amount of time it involves. All the radio signals we've ever put out, traveling at light speed, have barely gotten anywhere.
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@lavtiel
I'm trying so hard to understand why did those 895 people dislike this
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@frogery
we are nothing and everything
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@MHASSANF
This makes you wonder what else there is out there, what other planets are inhabited, and so many other endless discoveries to be made! How amazing!
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