The Known Universe

[Mado]

Scaled video of the known universe:

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Explanation: What would it look like to travel across the known universe? To help humanity visualize this, the American Museum of Natural History has produced a modern movie featuring many visual highlights of such a trip. The video starts in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth's satellites, the Sun, the Solar System, the extent of humanities first radio signals, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and quasars. As the distant surface of the microwave background is finally reached, radiation is depicted that was emitted billions of light years away and less than one million years after the Big Bang. Frequently using the Digital Universe Atlas, every object in the video has been rendered to scale given the best scientific research in 2009, when the video was produced. The film has similarities to the famous Powers of Ten video that has been a favorite of many space enthusiasts for a generation.

[Cloud]

I think I saw the Death Star in there somewhere.

[Mado]

I think I saw the Death Star in there somewhere.

Yeah, it was headed towards Earth I think.

[Mado]

I guess no one else thought this was cool? :(

[Reno]

Just watched it. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

[Cloud]

It kind of pissing me off because I'll probably never get to see any of that in person.

[Dalun]

It kind of pissing me off because I'll probably never get to see any of that in person.

Look up and you'll see it all... Just not very close up.

And yes Mado, I thought the video was cool. But I had nothing to add to the awesomeness so I was just gonna not say anything... So... Well played?

Yeah, it was headed towards Earth I think.

And it was not headed towards Earth. It was headed towards Alderaan. Duh.

[Reno]

I couldn't find the Death Star. Just seen a couple small moons, but nothing out of the ordinary.

I couldn't find alderaan either. W-w-w-where is it?

[Mado]

It kind of pissing me off because I'll probably never get to see any of that in person.

Yeah...I kind of think that sometimes too when I'm watching something about the universe and/or galaxy.

Look up and you'll see it all... Just not very close up.

And yes Mado, I thought the video was cool. But I had nothing to add to the awesomeness so I was just gonna not say anything... So... Well played?



And it was not headed towards Earth. It was headed towards Alderaan. Duh.

Well jeez, you could've just posted what you just posted...:)

I couldn't find the Death Star. Just seen a couple small moons, but nothing out of the ordinary.

I couldn't find alderaan either. W-w-w-where is it?

That's no moon, it's a space station.

[Dark Defender]

I guess no one else thought this was cool? :(

very cool mado :) just not much to say about it other than its...cool.

[SSArga]

It makes me remember when i watched something about Marther Luther King in middle school

I slept through that video. I got a pretty good 20 minutes of rest