Digital Universe
The Known Universe - Transcript
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The Known Universe
Developed by American Museum of Natural History
In partnership with Rubin Museum of Art
Developed by American Museum of Natural History
The Known Universe
This film shows the known universe as mapped through astronomical observations.
Every satellite, moon, planet, star and galaxy is represented to scale and in its correct, measured location according to the best scientific research to-date.
The data is maintained and curated by research astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History as the Digital Universe Atlas.
The Himalayas
Tibet
Planet Earth
Artificial satellites
The Moon's orbit
Light travel time from Earth: 1 second
The orbits of the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Light travel time from Earth: 1 hour Our solar system...
Light travel time from Earth: 1 day
...and the zodiacal constellations
Light travel time from Earth: 1 year
The Sun's true brightness compared to other stars
Light travel time from Earth: 70 years
Extent of humanity's first radio signals
The Milky Way Galaxy Light travel time from Earth: 100,000 years
The galaxies nearby Light travel time from Earth: 1 million years
The galaxies we have mapped so far
Light travel time from Earth: 100 million years
The empty areas where we have yet to map
Light travel time from Earth: 5 billion years
Quasars, the farthest objects we can see
Light from a younger universe...the afterglow of the Big Bang
Light travel time from Earth: 13.7 billion years
Our cosmic horizon in space, and in time
And now back to the present
And back to our home
The Digital Universe, developed by the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, incorporates data from dozens of organizations worldwide to create the most complete and accurate 3-D atlas of the Universe from the local solar neighborhood out to the edge of the observable Universe.