I like stars, space and everything about it! It's so mysterious and it can keep me awake some nights

thank god for gravity

Like if you think we're not alone in the universe.
Dislike if you think we are alone in the universe.

cool vid.
it was make me a bit giddy at one point.

wish they had rotated the camera instead of the image. then you would have had a full picture all the way through the video.

Hmmmmmm, its just as easy fixing your camera to a gimbal and rotating it 360 degrees to give the impression of the Earth rotating instead of resorting to time lapse photography, what did they use as a point of reference?

I don't like usual timelaps video ... but this one is cool.

0:39 was that a laser beam?

For $1,000,000. Anyone who thinks we are alone in the universe is =

A - a fool.
B - has no knowledge of the size of the universe.
C - ignorant.
D - All of above.

Does this mean we have been misled by science and the Church was correct after all, the heavens rotate around the earth!

#8, yes, a yellow laser based on the frequency of sodium atoms is used to create a synthetic "guide star" which is a tiny dot in the sky. By measuring how the synthetic guide star trembles or twinkles, the computer distorts the telescope mirror slightly to compensate for it. This is called "adaptive optics" and it makes very clear images that way.

Heresy I say!

#5 You're missing the point entirely. Time lapse movies of the sky are a dime a dozen. This one is interesting because it was processed afterwards to fix the frame of reference on the sky, so the earth appeared to rotate instead (which, of course, it actually does).

This is one of those things where you either get why it's interesting, or you don't.

directors like this are bad at knowing when to cut to a different camera... they do it all the time, grr.. hate them

#13 I found this very interesting and lovely except I was distracted by the frame of the images that broke the illusion. I agree with #5, I wish they had found a way to either rotate the camera to get the effect, or had used a wide enough lens to zoom into the image enough that we don't see the distracting black box that destroys the illusion of the earth rotating while the stars remain static.

You guys... this was most likely done using a video camera on a rotatin pod. They use that to study stars. You can enter the knows orbits of many stars in a little processor and it will follow them.

That is why the image is rotating. The only editing done was to changes in camera.