Publish at October 06 2008 Updated November 12 2025
Le journal de l'astronomie et de l'espace is a web publication of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de Paris (universcience.fr). It features astronomy news, in-depth articles and films to help you better understand the Universe and its components.
The film entitled " A vision of the Universe " is a simulation tracing the 13.7-billion-year history of the Universe, which, for the purposes of demonstration, is initially reduced to a cube of 500 million light-years on a side.
How did the clusters of matter form after the original Big Bang? What's in them? Where is our little planet located in the infinite Universe? These are just some of the questions answered in this 3:30 animation.
We discover that our galaxy, the Milky Way, shares a local group in a supercluster with the M33 galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy and the 2 Magellanic clouds.The distances and times involved are staggering. And the authors, researchers at the CNRS, make it clear that the reference cube constitutes only one-twentieth of the observable universe... and that beyond that, we know nothing.
An excellent introduction to astronomy, which helps us take a step back from our everyday problems!
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