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The Known Universe ~ A video
The Known Universe - http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=1834
After hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you
are pulled through the Earth's atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space
over Tibet's high desert. So begins The Known Universe, a new film produced by
the American Museum of Natural History. The magic of this film, though, happens
as the inky black expands. Pulling farther and farther from Earth, you see the
deep blue of the Pacific give way to night as the Sun comes into focus, the
orbits of the solar system shrink smaller and smaller, the constellations
Sagittarius and Scorpio stretch and distort, and, as the Milky Way receeds, the
spidery structure of millions of other galaxies come into view. Then, you reach
the limit of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light
has taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach our planet, and you return, back
to Earth, to two lakes that are nestled between Mount Kailash and Mount Gurla
Mandhata in the Himalayas. A stunning video!
After hovering over Mount Everest and the gorges that plunge to the Ganges, you
are pulled through the Earth's atmosphere to glimpse the inky black of space
over Tibet's high desert. So begins The Known Universe, a new film produced by
the American Museum of Natural History. The magic of this film, though, happens
as the inky black expands. Pulling farther and farther from Earth, you see the
deep blue of the Pacific give way to night as the Sun comes into focus, the
orbits of the solar system shrink smaller and smaller, the constellations
Sagittarius and Scorpio stretch and distort, and, as the Milky Way receeds, the
spidery structure of millions of other galaxies come into view. Then, you reach
the limit of the observable universe, the afterglow of the Big Bang. This light
has taken more than 13.7 billion years to reach our planet, and you return, back
to Earth, to two lakes that are nestled between Mount Kailash and Mount Gurla
Mandhata in the Himalayas. A stunning video!