A Flight through the Universe - Video

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posted on August 28th, 2012, 3:30 pm
Found this on one of my favourite sites, APOD:

A Flight Through The Universe - APOD

Explanation: What would it be like to fly through the universe? Possibly the best simulated video of this yet has been composed from recently-released galaxy data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Every spot in the above video is a galaxy containing billions of stars. Many galaxies are part of huge clusters, long filaments, or small groups, while expansive voids nearly absent of galaxies also exist. The movie starts by flying right through a large nearby cluster of galaxies and later circles the SDSS-captured universe at about 2 billion light years (a redshift of about 0.15) from Earth. Analyses of galaxy positions and movements continues to bolster the case that our universe contains not only the bright matter seen, like galaxies, but also a significant amount of unseen dark matter and dark energy.



After watching this, I'm certain we're not alone out there. Even if our own galaxy doesn't contains many races of sentient beings, like in Star Trek, with all those galaxies there has to be someone else out there!
posted on August 31st, 2012, 6:10 pm
If that doesn't make you feel really really really small, then nothing will. Crazy.
posted on September 1st, 2012, 11:33 pm
its fascinating to think about what possibilities are out there, considering how so many variants of creatures are on this planet and there is bound to be something else on many of those. would they develop like on here or would they find strange other ways of developing and adapting to their environment.

truly amazing when you think about it
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