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The movie titled "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 that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.
Every satellite, moon, planet, star and galaxy is represented to scale and its correct, measured location according to the best scientific research to-date.
Watch the video below.
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Amazing video, it really reminds us that we still know very little about the Universe :)
several hours of heated discussion versus 6:31min infovis.
[ quite recently in a bar, i had a discussion with some friends about climate, satellite communication, universe, sound within vacuum,... about to what extend and how far our first radio signals are already spread into the universe; then we discussed the problem of signal's coding and if another species out there will be able to decode...blub ]
In 6.31 minutes, at the fastest possible speed we know, we would have reached...the Sun (almost)! Wonders of television.
Well done... it's "Powers of 10" for this generation.
So this is for duration, what Powers Of Ten was for distance?