Watching this kind of gives the sense of just how insignificant we really are in the big scheme of things… Smaller than a grain of sand waiting on the beaches of eternity. Yet I Exist! And how infinitely cool is that?
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 provided by Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
