THE VIDEO SHELF · universe visualization
The Known Universe by AMNH #datavisualization
The American Museum of Natural History's film flies from the Himalayas out through the atmosphere and solar system to the afterglow of the Big Bang, using its Digital Universe Atlas four-dimensional map.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people share it as an eye-opening, moving visualization of the scale of the universe.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- American Museum of Natural History
- Topic
- universe visualization
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Check out this video from the American Museum of Natural History: [VIDEO] - It makes me think that we cannot be the only society in the universe - But it also makes be think that it is unlikely that we will find them in the …
herrherr on Hacker News · 2010-08
In Ask HN: Do you believe we'll ever encounter aliens?Seriously, it amazed me everything. You see everything life, from he mesh that holds the very matter to the limits of the universe; and you can control the hole this, with a Flash slider. Reminds me of the "Known Universe video from AMNH" So eye …
moblivu on Hacker News · 2011-04
In The scale of the universe, and everythingI am guessing you have liked this too - [VIDEO] Being a video it is not interactive, but definitely does strike something in me. It's almost the Total Perspective Vortex.
altrego99 on Hacker News · 2012-11
In 100,000 stars
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.