Super Scientifical 4: Space is the place

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Image: X Prize Foundation

The American Museum of Natural History just released an amazing short film called “The Known Universe”. It was directed by Carter Emmart for the Visions of the Cosmos exhibition that just opened at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.

It starts out over Mt Everest and then pulls away, Powers of Ten-style, into deep space 9.

Here’s some more info provided by the AMoNH, and if you’re a space nerd like myself, I strongly encourage you to click the links provided…

The structure of The Known Universe is based on precise, scientifically-accurate observations and research. The Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History maintains the Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe. The Digital Universe started nearly a decade ago. It is continually updated and is the primary resource for production of the Museum’s Space Shows such as the current Journey to the Stars, and is used in live, real-time renderings for Virtual Tours of the Universe, a public program held on the first Tuesday of every month. Last year, some 30,000 people downloaded the Digital Universe to their personal computers, and the Digital Universe will soon be updated with a more accurate and user-friendly software interface. Digital Universe is licensed to many other planetariums and theaters world-wide.