The Known Universe

SUBHEAD: A video animation tour from Earth through the known universe to its time horizon.  

Directed by Carter Emmart 15 December 2009 for Museum of Natural History- (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/)
   
Image above: The Milky Way. White dot near center left is location of our solar system. From video below.

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 new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010. Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/

  
Video above: A tour through the known universe. From (http://youtu.be/17jymDn0W6U).
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