Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 January 20 The Known Universe Credit & Copyright: American Museum of Natural History 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. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U"]The video[/ame] starts in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the
Pale blue dot? Hardly! Great video. I was a little disappointed at the detail when traveling through the spiral arms of the milky way - seems like there should be more visible stars. Perhaps the interstellar gases don't let their light permeate that well.
Me too,particularly looking towards the centre, no definition around sagittarius at all and it's such a wonderful sight. There's plenty of photographic/xray/infra-red detail available, but they fudged it with a vague cloudy light. Shame, good otherwise. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPBdWHqntw&feature=related"]YouTube- Sagitário na noite de Cerro Paranal[/ame] MelT
I've seen that one before. Crazy shit. Have you seen this one? Mind blowing. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFlzyxSQhTc]YouTube - Large-scale structure of the Universe[/ame]