Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Saturday, 17 November 2018

Just watch the damn video

Epic. Watch it on the biggest screen you can find at a volume level liable to induce involuntary bowel movements. Don't watch it on your mobile phone or I shall personally come and spit in your eye. A strong contender for the title of "best thing I've seen all year". It might not be to everyone's taste, but those people are objectively wrong and I don't like them.

Originally shared by Frank Summers

For the past 18 months, we have been working with composer / conductor Eric Whitacre on astronomy visuals to accompany his Hubble-inspired symphony “Deep Field”. The film was just released on YouTube today, and we are traveling to Kennedy Space Center for the VIP premiere tonight.

We hope you enjoy this artistic combination of evocative music and celestial wonders. More info at deepfieldfilm.com

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3r-Yu9CBDbxPnzCLdXqkPkr4QJwV_FDk

http://deepfieldfilm.com

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for making that available.

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  2. Yes. Thankyou. I have some people to show this to. I would have personally gone for "Incomprehensible" over "Impossible" for word choice but I guess too many syllables ruins popular communications efficacy and the end result is much the same.

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  3. Man, makes hair on my arm stand just contemplating.
    Astrophysics, because everything else is a derivative. Sad that Sagan didn't live to see the HDF &HUDF, his poetic description would have been marvelous.
    Thank you for that inspiring share Rhys!

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