The Light That Will Never Reach Us

Somewhere above you tonight is a patch of sky where your eyes see no stars at all. Hold a telescope on a patch like that for ten days, and the black fills with galaxies, more than a thousand of them. And somewhere out there, galaxies are shining whose newest light will never reach you. A slow space documentary to fall asleep to. 107 minutes, no loud sections, no ads inside the video. More slow journeys:    • Space documentaries to fall asleep to   Chapters 00:00 A Dark Patch of Sky 12:50 The Old Riddle of the Dark 26:42 Ten Days on Nothing 39:54 Looking Even Longer 53:58 How Bright the Dark Is 1:08:09 A Wall of Light 1:22:08 Farther Than the Light Is Old 1:36:28 What Never Arrives Sources (every number in the narration has one, here are three) NASA, Hubble's Deepest View of the Universe Unveils Bewildering Galaxies across Billions of Years (1996): https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hub... Robert W. Wilson, The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Nobel Lecture (1978): https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/20... Tamara Davis and Charles Lineweaver, Expanding Confusion (2003): https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310808 Images: NASA; ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb, ESO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA (CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... cropped and animated, credits on screen. In full: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team. Footage: Pexels. Narration is AI-generated (Speechify), as are some illustrations. #space #sleep #documentary