few weeks ago, the American Museum of Natural History hung on this spectacular video network, a computerized version that shows a "journey" from the surface of the Earth to the limits of the known universe.
What makes this video unique and different from most that have done so far is that everything in it appears is based on real data. That is, this is not a video "art" made as simple aesthetic, but a genuine reconstruction, piece by piece, of everything we know about the universe we live.
Everything from the trajectories of satellites orbiting the Earth to the position of all stars, galaxies or quasars lejanÃsimos, is based on exactly the data we have about each of these objects. Or to be more precise, data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which make up what is perhaps the most comprehensive view of the universe at our disposal so far.
Nevertheless, due to the geographical position in which the telescope is eight feet of the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, which is used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, there are areas of "dark" ie areas of the universe that the telescope, physically, can not observe. So in the video, the observed distribution of galaxies is shaped like two cones joined at the tip (the junction is the Earth), and the rest is black.
In total, the work comprises nearly a million galaxies and quasars over 120,000. The trip, which begins in the Himalayas, ends at the very limit of what we see with the most powerful tools we have, the echoes of the Big Bang, to 13,700 million light years away, and serves to give us all account, in a direct and visual, as negligibly small is our world, even our galaxy, when compared to all that is "out there" ...
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