Cosmic Eye
2012 film
Cosmic Eye [1] is a short 2012/2018 film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow.[2] It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a woman called "Louise". According to the creator, the film and app were inspired by the essay Cosmic View (1957) and the short films Cosmic Zoom (1968) and Powers of Ten (1977), but use state-of-the-art technology and new scientific imaging and computer simulations. Cosmic Eye, although developed in 2012 for local teaching and outreach purposes, in April 2016 it suddenly attracted 40 million views in just ten days on the Facebook group page of "The Science Scoop".[3] The video has since been viewed more than 200 million times on Facebook and was featured in major media, such as BBC World News.[4]
Cosmic Eye was re-released in 2018 in high-resolution landscape (16:9) format and slightly improved graphics that include animated vector elements.
The woman at the centre of the film is Louise McKay, a professional cellist from Western Australia.
See also
- Cosmic Voyage, 1996 film
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Location of Earth
Earth → Solar System → Local Interstellar Cloud → Local Bubble → Gould Belt → Orion Arm → Milky Way → Milky Way subgroup → Local Group → Local Sheet → Virgo Supercluster → Laniakea Supercluster → Local Hole → Observable universe → Universe
Each arrow (→) may be read as "within" or "part of".
Each arrow (→) may be read as "within" or "part of".
- Cosmic View (1957 book)
- To the Moon and Beyond (1964 film)
- Cosmic Zoom (1968 film)
- Powers of Ten (1968 and 1977 films)
- Cosmic Voyage (1996 documentary)
- Cosmic Eye (2012)
- History of the center of the Universe
- Order of magnitude
- Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex
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