From the Himalayas to the Big Bang's afterglow: Amazing video transports you from Earth to the edge of the known universe
- Every star, planet, and quasar seen in this sequence has been mapped to scale by the American Museum of Natural History's Digital Universe Atlas
- Video zooms out from Earth showing satellites, the sun and solar system
- Moving further out, it flies the viewer on a rapid journey across Milky Way galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and finally quasars
By Daily Mail UK
From the highest peaks of the Himalayas to the afterglow of the Big Bang, this incredible sequence takes the viewer on a captivating journey through the known universe.
In a vertigo-inducing sequence, the video zooms out from Earth showing the orbit of satellites, the sun and the solar system before revealing the extent of humanities first radio signals.
Moving further out, it flies the viewer on a rapid journey across Milky Way galaxy, galaxies nearby, distant galaxies, and finally quasars, which offer scientists a glimpse into the origins of the universe.
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From the highest peaks of the Himalayas (pictured) to the afterglow of the Big Bang, this incredible sequence takes the viewer on a captivating journey through our known universe
As the distant surface of the microwave background is finally reached, radiation is depicted that was emitted billions of light years away and less than one million years after the Big Bang.
Every star, planet, and quasar seen in this sequence has been mapped to scale by the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas.
‘The light from these distant galaxies have taken so long, we're essentially backing up into the past,’ said Carter Emmart, Director of Astrovisualisation at the American Museum of Natural History.
Every star, planet, and quasar seen in this sequence has been mapped to scale by the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas. Pictured here are the orbit of planets in our solar system
This image shows the constellation of stars in our sky with the sun shown in its true brightness compared with the other stellar clusters