The Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The film, created by the Museum, was part of a 2010 exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan.

Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History

Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott

Music: Suke Cerulo

[rj]

Respect for the cameraman who went that far beyond in the universe and also came back to make this video possible

[LeadGuitarWorkshop]

So proud to have made the music for this! Such a wonderful video. Thanks AMNH

[tectzas]

The amount of comments of how small, insignificant, puny and worthless us humans, and especially a single human, is too damn high! The fact that this species that were are all a part of has the capability to analyze, classify, comprehend and ultimately appreciate this existence is beautiful. It's something we should sit back and think how lucky we are to even be watching a video like this and communicating at light speed with one another about our thoughts about it. We're all magnificent beings.

[bakatalk]

I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THIS LOST This video literally shocks me when I was 4, it is a really cool video, even revisiting after 17 years

[ruby]

I know I'm supposed to feel insignificant, but seeing this huge vastness of basically empty space, gas etc, and how we haven't found any sign of life yet, it actually makes me feel very special and rare. It's a privilege to be alive and to be able to learn about this universe.

[MrFutago]

I couldn't even blink while watching this.

[bigkoasttv]

I come back to this video every year or so since it's been out. A beautiful work of art. We are so small in the grand schemes of it all. We have one beautiful life. Live it to the fullest, we got the chance to be here! Take risks, enjoy yourself, spread love.

[tetrapod]

As humans we have accomplished so much! Just imagine what Galileo, Kepler or Newton would have thought if we could show them this! Watching this masterpiece is such a humbling and profoundly emotional experience. You could even say it is 'spiritual'. To know that we are not just living 'in' the Universe, but that we ARE A PART of the it, and that the Cosmos is of an unimaginably colossal scale is one of the true blessings of living in this modern era! Our world and star were condensed from stardust, and life arose on the planetary surface and developed consciousness, awareness, compassion. As Carl Sagan once said: "We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."
I'll end this with a line from one of my favourite songs - Every Age by Jose Gonzalez: "We don't choose where we're born, we don't choose in what pocket or form, but can, learn to know, ourselves on this globe in the void..."

[crunchy]

Looking at it this way makes all these issues people have seem to not matter. Can't we all just focus on what extremely incredible accomplishments human beings have made since we've been here we're so small compared to this universe but that we have made something of ourselves and evolved is so impressive.

[Kragatar]

2:37 Really illustrates the scale of the universe, and the immense amount of time it involves. All the radio signals we've ever put out, traveling at light speed, have barely gotten anywhere.

[iLiveExtreme]

This made me cry, honestly. Such an amazing feeling, unexplainable and can't be compared to any other feeling.

[missxchief]

I find this both comforting and terrifying.

[ozziscapevods]

i don't think we're insignificant at all... can you imagine? how much we feel, explore, love, the profound nature of existence and living on our small planet? honestly it just makes me so overwhelmed because if this is important, then think of how beautiful and important the rest of the universe is. We are A PART of this incredible universe. We are small, yes, but we are interconnected with this vast, unimaginable universe. Yes i cried watching this. I sobbed like a baby with how much love I felt for the sheer joy of being part of this.

[LynaGalliara]

All these years later, still the most ambitious and accomplished video on YouTube

[rikurodriguesneto]

This to me gives the strongest feeling of the scale of the universe of any video I've seen

[koyunbaba]

When I was a kid, they showed a film clip that was similar to this one at the Ontario Science Centre. It started with a picture of a man laying on the beach, and then it went outward to the farthest regions in space. Then, like this film, it went inwards again right back to the very beginning of the man on the beach. But it didn't stop there. The camera zoomed in on the guy's hand and went inwards, all the way until it showed a picture of an atom. That was really cool. You know, we know more about what is out there in space than we know about what is in the bottom of the oceans. We also know less about the smallest aspects of nature than we do about space. But I love this video because it really sparks the imagination.

[MHASSANF]

This makes you wonder what else there is out there, what other planets are inhabited, and so many other endless discoveries to be made! How amazing!

[FeistyJackball]

The feeling of awe and amazement really gets through once the camera leaves the milky way galaxy... The feeling amplifies on the way back.

[OfficialYamamotoMusic]

makes me sad to know that I won't be able to see the universe or see other creatures beyond earth. =(

[Quarker]

Did anyone else cry watching this? This is immensely emotional. The Earth is a single organism. It's our only home.