What if you could see every type of light?

Human eyes can only see a tiny fraction of the light around us. But what if that suddenly changed? If you could see across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the world would look completely unfamiliar. Heat would glow. Radio waves would fill the environment. Ultraviolet radiation would reveal patterns normally hidden from view, while X-rays and gamma rays would expose some of the most extreme processes in nature. The sky itself would change. Stars, galaxies and cosmic objects that appear dark or invisible to us would suddenly become visible in entirely new ways. But seeing everything would not necessarily mean understanding it. This documentary explores a universe hidden beyond human vision to ask: What if you could see every type of light? FOOTAGE & VISUAL CREDITS Credits: ESO | NASA | ESA | ESA/Hubble | M. Kornmesser | Mahdi Zamani | J. Depasquale | L. Calçada | Mark Garlick | N. Bartmann | NAOJ | A. Pagan | A. Riess | ALMA | Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit | GROND | K. Sahu | NRAO | P. McGill | R. Indebetouw | SH0ES team | STScI | University of Warwick | A. Filippenko | A. Levan | A. Martin-Carrillo et al. | A. Nierenberg | A. Reines | A. Roquette | A. Simonnet | Alexandra Angelich | Anthony Meilland | B. Johnson | B. Robertson | BlackHoleCam | CSA | D. Eisenstein | D. Milisavljevic | Digitized Sky Survey 2 | ESO 2.2-metre telescope | F. Millour | F. Vogt et al. | Hubble Heritage Team | HUDF 2012 Team | J. Bally | J. Banovetz | J. Dalcanton | Jordy Davelaar et al. | K. Noll et al. | L. Wheatley | LIGO | M. Rieke | M.-R. Cioni | MPG | MUSE | NSF | NSF’s NOIRLab | OmegaCAM | P. Das et al. | R. Ellis | R. Sankrit | Radboud University | S. Brunier | S. Goldman | S. Steinhöfel | S. Tacchella | Sonoma State University | T. Treu | VIMOS | VIRCAM | VISTA | VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey | VLT | VPHAS+ team | VST | W. D. Vacca | Z. Schutte | Zdeněk Bardon MUSIC CREDITS Music by Kevin MacLeod — incompetech.com Additional footage and imagery used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Some assets have been cropped, animated, reframed or captioned for this video. Additionally, public-domain material sourced from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov.