Travel from the Himalayas through Earth’s atmosphere, out past the Milky Way and into the inky black of space, all the way to the afterglow of the Big Bang–now in immersive 360 video. Every planet, star, and quasar shown in this video is based on real scientific data from space missions and telescopes around the world (and in outer space!), visualized in OpenSpace, an open source interactive data visualization software designed to dynamically portray the entire known universe and our ongoing efforts to investigate the cosmos.

See the original version, created by the American Museum of Natural History in 2009:    • The Known Universe by AMNH #datavisua...  .

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Producer
Lee Stevens

VR/360 Director
Deion Desir

Scientific Advisors
Jackie Faherty & Brian Abbott

Original concept for The Known Universe developed by Carter Emmart, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Michael Hoffman, Roe Kinzler, Martin Brauen, and Brian Abbott.

OpenSpace is funded in part by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

OpenSpace is funded in part by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and the Swedish eScience Research Centre.

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