Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2022 December 4 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fKBhvDjuy0?rel=0 Video: Powers of Ten Video Credit & Copyright: [3]Charles & Ray Eames ([4]Eames Office) Explanation: How different does the universe look on very small scales? On very large scales? The most famous short science film of its generation gives breathtaking comparisons. That film, [5]Powers of Ten, originally created in the 1960s, has been officially posted to YouTube and embedded [6]here. From a picnic blanket [7]near Chicago out past the [8]Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, every ten seconds the film zooms out to show a square a [9]factor of ten times larger on each side. The 9-minute video then reverses, zooming back in a factor of ten every two seconds and ends up [10]inside a single proton. The Powers of Ten [11]sequence is actually based on the book [12]Cosmic View by [13]Kees Boeke in 1957, as is a similar but mostly animated film [14]Cosmic Zoom that was also created in the late 1960s. The changing perspectives are so [15]enthralling and educational that sections have been [16]recreated using [17]more modern computerized techniques, including the first few minutes of the movie [18]Contact. [19]Ray and husband Charles Eames, the film's creators, were known as quite visionary spirits and even invented [20]their own popular chair. Tomorrow's picture: seven sister stars __________________________________________________________________ [21]< | [22]Archive | [23]Submissions | [24]Index | [25]Search | [26]Calendar | [27]RSS | [28]Education | [29]About APOD | [30]Discuss | [31]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell ([35]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [36]Specific rights apply. [37]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [38]ASD at [39]NASA / [40]GSFC, [41]NASA Science Activation & [42]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fKBhvDjuy0?rel=0 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames 4. https://www.eamesoffice.com/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film) 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050724.html 8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220615.html 9. https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-increase-something-by-a-factor-of-10-and-reduce-something-by-a-factor-of-10 10. https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ 11. https://www.eamesoffice.com/the-work/powers-of-ten-a-rough-sketch/ 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_View 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Boeke 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Zoom 15. https://www.catit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/All-you-need-to-become-your-cats-hero-5.jpg 16. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ 17. https://htwins.net/scale2/ 18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNAUR7NQCLA 19. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames 20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_Lounge_Chair_Wood 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221203.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 30. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=221204 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221205.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 35. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 38. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/ 40. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 41. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 42. http://www.mtu.edu/