Starting in Asia and extending to the limits of human understanding, The Known Universe is a journey through the cosmos created by the American Museum of Natural History as part of the 2009-2010 Rubin Museum exhibition Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe. Created using the Hayden Planetarium’s Digital Universe Atlas, the world’s most complete map of the observable Universe, the visualisation serves as both an astounding tour of our cosmos and a tribute to centuries of scientific observation and accomplishment.
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The remarkable innovations inspired by our need to know the night sky
5 minutes
videoPhysics
To change the way you see the Moon, view it from the Sun’s perspective
5 minutes
videoPhysics
What does it look like to hunt for dark matter? Scenes from one frontier in the search
7 minutes
videoPhysics
Imagining spacetime as a visible grid is an extraordinary journey into the unseen
12 minutes
videoPhysics
The abyss at the edge of human understanding – a voyage into a black hole
4 minutes
videoChemistry
Why do the building blocks of life possess a mysterious symmetry?
12 minutes
videoCosmology
Tiny, entangled universes that form or fizzle out – a theory of the quantum multiverse
11 minutes
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The history of astronomy is a history of conjuring intelligent life where it isn’t
34 minutes
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The Indian astronomer whose innovative work on black holes was mocked at Cambridge
13 minutes