“Travel from the Himalayas through Earth’s atmosphere, out past the Milky Way and into the inky black of space, all the way to the afterglow of the Big Bang–now in immersive 360 video. Every planet, star, and quasar shown in this video is based on real scientific data from space missions and telescopes around the world (and in outer space!), visualized in OpenSpace, an open source interactive data visualization software designed to dynamically portray the entire known universe and our ongoing efforts to investigate the cosmos.”
The Known Universe in 360° was directed by Deion Desir and produced by Lee Stevens at the American Museum of Natural History. The video is an updated version of the museum’s 2009 visualization with the same title.
Related visualization videos include:
• A 2.5-minute tour of the galaxy
• Eva Szasz’s Cosmic Zoom (1968)
• Powers of Ten (1977) by Charles and Ray Eames
• Powers of Ten, updated with today’s science and technology
• To Scale: TIME, a short film that visualizes 13.8 billion years
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