Hello, it's Scott Manley here now after last week's 360 video of asteroids it's
time to try this again but perhaps something a little more driven by eye candy
this is of course space engine zooming back in from the very edge of the
universe back towards the place we call home
yes I decided to look at the various open methods available for space engine
and it turns out that with a bit of hacking I was able to course the fisheye
display into a full 360 degree view which could be experienced on youtube
know just in case you're not sure what 360 videos are if your loot viewing this
on chrome then you should be able to pan around using the keyboard or the buttons
on the screen if you're viewing this on a recent android or iOS device should be
able to scroll it using your fingers or simply rotate the whole thing but the
best experience is using something like Google cardboard where you will place
your cell phone in front of your eyes and be immersed in this world generated
by space engine leaving this planet and some unnamed corner of the galaxy or
we can fly by a black hole the remnant of a long-dead star the only way we can
see this is because of the way it's gravity bends space-time itself far
above the clouds of Jupiter a pair of spacecraft or waiting preparing to
embark on a voyage of discovery which we of course have no need for these
spaceships we're gliding effortlessly through the sky driven by the forces
which makes space engine work and make it awesome
on a distant world with a faint atmosphere we find a small volcano in
the surface of the planet orbited by not one but by five moons hanging ahead of
us in the skies above we may see constellations but they're not the
constellations we know from Earth we are a long way from home right now
further out above the plane of the galaxy itself flying above a whirlpool
made a hundred trillion stars and flying it unimaginable speed those points of
light flying by those aren't stars those r star clusters made of thousands or
millions of stars on their own back closer to our home in our backyard so to
speak
space engine not only lets us travel across space but also travel across time
running the clock at thousands of times normal speed
let's see the motions of the moon's as they fly around outside the rings of
Saturn some of these give the Rings their distinct structure through their
gravitational effects others merely cast shadows traveling through the plane of
the galaxy it billion times the speed of light the stars around us resemble
snowflakes in a snowstorm but don't confuse them each of these is converting
thousands or millions of tons of matter into energy every second
only the great distances are taking their nuclear fires for us to take a
closer look at one of these a post main-sequence star long past its prime
soon heading towards and evolved state its outer atmospheres ballooning and
exploding off into space around a younger more
luminous star a handful of planets are being vaporized by the intense radiation
from the star above turning themselves into giant planet sized comments leaving
trails of space dust headed off to infinity and so that's as we're heading
back off into the deeper universe beyond always spots up there
those aren't stars those are galaxies the universe provided by space engine is
unimaginably big you could explore it forever and still not find everything
I'm Scott Manley, fly safe.