Cosmic Voyage

Cosmic Voyage

Directed by	Bayley Silleck
Produced by	Jeffrey Marvin Bayley Silleck
Written by	Michael Miner Bayley Silleck
Narrated by	Morgan Freeman
Music by	David Michael Frank
Production company	Cosmic Voyage Inc.
Distributed by	IMAX Corporation National Air and Space Museum
Release date	1996
Running time	36 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cosmic Voyage is a 1996 short documentary film produced in the IMAX format, directed by Bayley Silleck, produced by Jeffrey Marvin, and narrated by Morgan Freeman. The film was presented by the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum,^[1] and played in IMAX theaters worldwide. The film is available in the DVD format.

Synopsis

Cosmic Voyage takes on a similar format as the National Film Board of Canada's Cosmic Zoom, and IBM's classic Powers of Ten educational video. All based on the book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke. The film takes viewers on a journey through forty-two orders of magnitude, beginning at a celebration in Venice, Italy slowly zooming out into the edge of the observable universe. The view descends back to earth, and later zooms in upon a raindrop on a leaf on a hoop used in the celebration mentioned earlier, to the level of subatomic particles (quarks).

In addition, the film offers some brief insight on the Big Bang theory, black holes, and the development of our Solar System. It also simulates a journey through Fermilab's Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago, where an atom collision is depicted.

Cosmic Voyage was nominated for a 1997 Academy Award under the category of Best Documentary Short Subject.^[2]

Earth's location in the Universe
Included	Earth → Solar System → Local Interstellar Cloud → Local Bubble → Gould Belt → Orion Arm → Milky Way → Milky Way subgroup → Local Group → Virgo Supercluster → Laniakea Supercluster → Observable universe → Universe Each arrow (→) may be read as "within" or "part of".
Related	Cosmic View (1957 essay) To the Moon and Beyond (1964 film) Cosmic Zoom (1968 film) Powers of Ten (1968 and 1977 films) Cosmic Voyage (1996 documentary) Cosmic Eye (2012)
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Orders of magnitude
Quantity	Acceleration Angular velocity Area Bit rate Capacitance Charge Computing Currency Current Data Density Energy / Energy density / Energy flow density Entropy Force Frequency Inductance Illuminance Length Luminance / Luminous flux Magnetic field Mass Molarity Numbers Power Pressure Probability Radiation Resistance Sound pressure Specific energy Specific heat capacity Speed Temperature Time Viscosity Voltage Volume
See also	Back-of-the-envelope calculation Fermi problem Powers of 10 Metric (SI) prefix Macroscopic scale Microscopic scale Quantum realm
Related	Earth's location in the Universe Cosmic View (1957 essay) To the Moon and Beyond (1964 film) Cosmic Zoom (1968 film) Powers of Ten (1968 and 1977 films) Cosmic Voyage (1996 documentary) Cosmic Eye (2012)
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