The Center Of The Universe Is Not Where You Think

Where is the centre of the universe? And where did the Big Bang actually happen? For thousands of years, humans believed we were at the centre: first Earth, then the Sun, then our own Milky Way galaxy. But every time we thought we had found the centre of the universe… it moved further away. In this video, we follow a search that took nearly 2,000 years, from Ptolemy, Aryabhata and Copernicus to Edwin Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope, to answer one simple question: where is the centre of everything? The answer is so strange that it will change how you see your own place in the cosmos. 🔭 In this video: • Is Earth the centre of the universe? • Where did the Big Bang happen? • Does the universe have an edge? • The Cosmic Microwave Background, the oldest light in the universe • What an expanding universe really means If you love deep stories about space, the universe and cosmology, subscribe to Cosmion. A new story every Monday and Friday. 📚 SOURCES & CREDITS Images and videos used under their licences. Thank you to every scientist, agency and photographer below. NASA (public domain): NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Scientific Visualization Studio; NASA/JPL-Caltech (R. Hurt); NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA (WISE); COBE and WMAP Science Teams; NASA Planck Science Center (Planck maps: ESA and the Planck Collaboration); NASA/SDO; ISS Earth imagery. ESA/Webb & ESA/Hubble (CC BY 4.0): NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI; ESA/Webb; ESA/Hubble; JADES Team (B. Robertson, B. Johnson, S. Tacchella); A. Martel; G. Bacon, F. Summers, J. DePasquale, L. Hustak, J. Olmsted, A. Pagan, C. Nieves (STScI); the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Z. Levay; S. Beckwith; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, K. Whitaker; J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson; A. van der Hoeven; M. Kornmesser; L. Calçada; L. L. Christensen; R. Gendler; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2. ESO (CC BY 4.0): ESO; ESO/S. Brunier; ESO/S. Guisard; ESO/M. Kornmesser; R. Wesson/ESO; ESO/MPE/VISTA/J. Emerson; ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. NOIRLab (CC BY 4.0): N.A. Sharp/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSO/NSF/AURA; International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; DESI Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor; KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld. ESA/Gaia/DPAC (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO). Wikimedia Commons: • Great Library of Alexandria: Igor Merit Santos, CC BY-SA 4.0 • De revolutionibus (1543) pages: Lfurter, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Cathedral Hill, Frombork: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 • A view of Padua in the 15th century: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0 • Holmdel Horn Antenna: Fabioj, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Arno Penzias: Kartik J, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Hooker Telescope, Mount Wilson: Andrew Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0 • Public domain: portraits and engravings of Ptolemy, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Copernicus, Galileo, Georges Lemaître, Albert Einstein, Harlow Shapley, J. C. Kapteyn, Henrietta Leavitt and the Harvard computers; Andreas Cellarius's star atlas plates; Lord Rosse's M51 drawing; Pataliputra excavation photos. Stock footage: Pexels and Pixabay. Sound effects: Sonniss GDC Game Audio Bundle. #universe #space #spacedocumentary #cosmion #sleepoverit