A 3D atlas of the universe Carter Emmart

it’s a great honor today to share with

you the digital universe which was

created for humanity to really see where

we are in the universe and so I think we

can roll the video that we have

the flat horizon that we’ve evolved with

has been a metaphor for the infinite

unbounded resources and unlimited

capacity for disposal of waste it wasn’t

until we really left earth got above the

atmosphere and seen the horizon been

back on itself that we could understand

our planet as a limited condition

the digital universe Atlas has been

built at the American Museum of Natural

History over the past twelve years and

we maintain that put that together as a

project to really chart the universe

across all scales what we see here are

satellites around the earth and the

earth in proper registration against the

universe as we see NASA supported this

work twelve years ago as part of the

rebuilding of the Hayden Planetarium so

that we would share this with the world

the digital universe is the basis of our

space show productions that we do our

main space shows in the dome but what

you see here is a result of actually

internships that we hosted with Lynn

shipping University in Sweden and I’ve

had 12 students work on this for their

graduate work and the result has been

this software called uni view and a

company called schists in sweden this

software allows interactive use and so

this actual flight path and movie that

we see here was actually flown live I

captured this live from my laptop in a

cafe called Earth matters on the lower

east side of Manhattan where I live and

it was done as a collaborative project

with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan art

for a exhibit on comparative cosmology

and so as we move out we see

continuously from our planet all the way

out into the realm of galaxies as we see

here light travel time giving you a

sense of how far away we are as we move

out the light from these distant

galaxies have taken so long we’re

essentially backing up into the path

we back so far up we’re finally seeing a

containment around us the afterglow of

the Big Bang this is the w map microwave

background that we see will fly outside

it here just to see the sort of

containment if we were outside this it

would almost be meaningless in the

census before time but this is our

containment of the visible universe we

know the universe is bigger not which we

can see coming back quickly we see here

the radio sphere that we jumped out of

in the beginning but these are positions

latest positions of exoplanets that

we’ve mapped and our Sun here obviously

with our own solar system but you’re

going to see we’re going to have to jump

in here pretty quickly between several

orders of magnitude to get down to where

we see the solar system these are the

paths Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Pioneer 11 and

pioneer 10 the first four spacecraft to

have left the solar system coming in

closer

picking up Earth orbit of the moon and

we see the earth

this map can be updated and we can add

in new data I know dr. Carolyn Porco is

the camera pie for the Cassini mission

but here we see the complex trajectory

of the Cassini mission color-coded four

different mission phases ingeniously

developed so that 45 encounters with the

largest moon Titan which is larger than

the planet Mercury diverts the orbit

into different parts of mission phase

the software allows us to come close and

look at parts of this the software can

also be networked between domes we have

a growing user base of this when we

network domes and we can network between

domes and classrooms we’re actually

sharing tours of the universe with the

first sub saharan planetarium in Ghana

as well as new libraries that have been

built in the ghettos in Columbia and a

high school in Cambodia and the

Cambodians have actually controlled the

Hayden Planetarium from their high

school this is an image from Saturday

photographed by the Aqua satellite but

through the univ ii software and so

you’re seeing the edge of the earth this

is Nepal this is in fact right here is

the valley of Lhasa right here in Tibet

but we can see the haze from fires and

so forth in the Ganges Valley down below

in India this is Nepal and Tibet and

just in closing it’s like to say this

beautiful world that we live on here we

see a bit of the snow that some of you

may have had to brave and coming out so

I’d like to just say that what the world

needs now is a sense of being able to

look at ourselves in this much larger

condition now and a much larger sense of

what home is because our home is the

universe and we are the universe

essentially we carry that in us and to

be able to see our context in this

larger sense at all scales helps us all

I think in understanding where we are

and who we

are in the universe thank you

you