Our Place in the Universe
This video shows what it would be like to zoom 100 million light-years away from a starting point on Earth.
Beginning with a satellite’s view of two people on a picnic, the images progressively move upwards from our planet.
The journey continues through the solar system, venturing out into the Local Interstellar Cluster within which our solar system resides.
After a while, the trajectory accelerates, and we find ourselves in the Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
Then, we pass through the Local Group of galaxies that contains our Milky Way, along with more than 30 other galaxies, including dwarf galaxies.
Our rapid journey ends 100 million light-years away from the Earth, further away from our Local Supercluster, dominated by the Virgo Supercluster, and amongst the other Superclusters which comprise the observable universe.
Finally, we quickly zoom back in and return to the start of the video. Then, our virtual camera zooms in on the human body, advancing through cells, then molecules, atoms, neutrinos, and lastly into what the video hints at being the most fundamental particles of matter.
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