The Known Universe by AMNH

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/

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

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• space
• universe
• stars
• solar system
• ben oppenheimer
• Carter Emmart
• amnh
• natural history
• hayden planetarium
• known universe

[Bryan320402]

I don't feel "small" or "insignificant" when I watch this.

Our Universe is probably just one atom in someone else's Universe and one atom on my fingernail is someone else's Universe.

Size is not what we should use to measure significance.

The fact that we are awake and alive...The fact that we are aware of our existence and get the opportunity to exist is what should be more special now from watching this.

This video is awesome...Now go enjoy life!

[1FastfingersMcgee1]

If you honestly think god created all of that just for us humans who are just an almost instantaneous flicker of life on a speck of dust in an incredibly insignificant corner of the known universe (which could be a very small portion of the actual universe) then you are the most arrogant and ignorant prick who couldn't put two leggos together let alone a string of original thought.

[TheRatbonez]

and WHO created ''him''? u think he was created just by itself? LOL its ridiculous.

[aigg]

The Big Bang represents the initiation of the expansion of space itself. This does not mean that matter was blown outwards toward the "edges", as there can be no edge "where" space itself has yet to exist. The Universe does not have a center, thus there can be no "middle". So, it does not make sense to say "everything in it blown apart and racing to the outsite". There is no "outside" to speak of, there is only space; space permitted by the rate of the expansion.

[aigg]

I wouldn't mind peoples delusions, had it not been for the the fact that peoples beliefs have real consequences. Religion has caused endless suffering for billions of individuals up through history. As of 2012, there are no arguments that can justify a continuation of this horribly destructive path of cancerous, ideological waste.

[stough77]

What makes you so sure that you'll receive eternal salvation? There is no way to know for certain... Also, just because someone doesn't believe in your religion, doesn't necissarily mean that they're living a life of sin. Many people who are not religious are more decent and well rounded than people of faith - in my experience anyway. Not everyone needs a bible as a guide for how to be a good person... Don't live for the afterlife - live for the present.

[doopdoopshawoop]

If you enjoy questioning the nature of reality and the meaning of life, you are a truth seeker. Search Truth Contest in google and click on the first result. Then check out "The Present" on the homepage. This is truth you can check with your rational mind.

[johauHAU]

I don't care if my opinions offend you since you just told me that I'm going to hell for eternity if I don't believe like you.

[yeahfree]

If that so called .big bang. Was 13.7 billion years ago and everything in it blown apart and racing to the outsite... Why isnt there à great, big black and empthy space in the middle of our universe... I dont understand... Or, perhaps... They dont understand. You tell me...

[cipEsIllorTcipE]

no i find life quite easy living by the rule and guidence of the Lord, you may fiind your life easy and you may feel superior to other individuals but be that as it may be you will be the one under me when we both part from this life.

i dont mean to sound bad toward you but you have offended me quite alot with you narrow minded point of view for other peoples choice in life.

[johauHAU]

I hope you well, it's probably hard living with such an inferior and ignorant mind.

[cipEsIllorTcipE]

ok then lets use these elephant trunks as an example of yours, do they talk to people guide them in life, free slaves, stop famine and desiese? no?thats because they dont exist, god on the other hand does he has done all these things and many more miricles.

my defiition of God? everything quite simple he is the great almighty omnipotence force that lives no where and everywhere through every point in time and chooses to help this fragile race of filth reach salvation.