How small are we in the scale of the universe? - Alex Hofeldt
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In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty, and the whole endeavor was risky – what, if anything, was going to show up? But what came back was nothing short of spectacular: an image of over 1,500 galaxies glimmering in a tiny sliver of the universe. Alex Hofeldt helps us understand the scale of this image.
The Hubble Deep Field image provides a visual aide when thinking about the size of the universe, the size of the cosmos, and the size of humans. Has this video changed your ideas about scale? If so, how?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Alex Hofeldt
- Director Yukai Du
- Script Editor Mia Nacamulli
- Animator Tom Matuszewski
- Producer Tim Coates
- Composer Tim Arndt
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Addison Anderson
