NASA Releases Stunning New Images Of Jupiter

The Universe in a Glass of Wine (Richard Feynman

A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he said that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look in glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let us give one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

 This video fills me up with hope. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance, showing it against the vastness of space. By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth. It was subsequently used by Sagan as the title of his 1994 book of the same name.

The Greatest Contributing Factor to Happiness

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Octopus: Masters of Optical Illusion

The world is much more amazing than we can begin to imagine.

Imagining the 10th Dimension

Boggle Your Mind
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Rainbows

"The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it. This is pretty amazing, especially considering that all the beautiful colors you see represent less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum.”

— We Originated in the Belly of a Star, NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012.

We Are All Made of Stars

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked in an interview with TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.


CREDITS
Narration: TIME Magazine's "10 Questions for Neil Degrasse Tyson"
youtube.com/watch?v=wiOwqDmacJo
Music: "To Build a Home (Instrumental)" by the Cinematic Orchestra
youtube.com/watch?v=6PJ0Oxjc1v4
myspace.com/thecinematicorchestras

Video (in order of appearance):
IMAX: Hubble 3D (Orion)
imax.com/hubble/
Yellowstone: Battle for Life (Tree & Waterfall)
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jcdml
Supernova to Crab Nebula
spacetelescope.org/videos/heic0515a/
BBC: Wonders of the Solar System (formation of the solar system)
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyxfb
Accretion and First Eukaryotes from the 2011 film "Tree of Life" directed by Terrence Malick
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_(astrophysics)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolutionary_history_of_life
twowaysthroughlife.com/
BBC: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
wellcometreeoflife.org/
"Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia" by Ayrton Orio (Model: Xharon Kendelker)
vimeo.com/9505354
"Afghanistan - touch down in flight" by Augustin Pictures
vimeo.com/31426899
lukasugustin.de
"mongolia!" by wiissa
vimeo.com/27876709
wiissa.com

Excerpt from "Outside In", Copyright Stephen van Vuuren/SV2 Studios
outsideinthemovie.com
IMAX: Hubble 3D (Inside Orion Nebula)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula
Shuttle Launch from 1985 IMAX film "The Dream is Alive"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_Is_Alive
"Earth -- Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over -- NASA, ISS" by Michael Konig
youtube.com/watch?v=ls9yJTphLxg
koenigm.com
Excerpt from "The Island" - La Palma Time Lapse Video by Christoph Malin
vimeo.com/27539860
christophmalin.com
Galaxy Map and Galaxy Formation by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab
avl.ncsa.illinois.edu/
"Mars sunset" captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (from BBC: Wonders of the Solar System)
nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_347.html

Edited by Max Schlickenmeyer

Neil goes on to say "For me, that is the most profound revelation of 20th century astrophysics and I look forward to what the 21st century will bring us, given the frontiers that are now unfolding."

Special thanks to Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Reid Gower, and NASA for their inspiration.

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Earth Time Lapse View from Space Aurora Borealis

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011. HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. Music: Jan Jelinek | Do Dekor, faitiche back2001 w+p by Jan Jelinek, published by Betke Edition janjelinek.com | faitiche.de Editing: Michael König | koenigm.com Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth eol.jsc.nasa.gov

"Five Months Gone By" by Two Suns

Featuring excerpts from "Experiments In The Revival of Organisms" (1940) by Dr. Sergei Bryukhonenko, and "Things to Come" (1936) by H.G. Wells & William Menzies.

Edited by Chase Spivey