Australian astrophysicist's video dazzles the Internet, 4 years after it was made
The Internet is full of gems that are yet to be discovered.
Like a video called Cosmic Eye, which has quickly gained Internet stardom, even though it was created four years ago by an Australian astrophysicist.
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Cosmic Eye is a mesmerising three-minute video that starts off with a woman's face, zooming out until it hits the outer reaches of the universe billions of light years away. The video then goes the other way around, zooming in to a quark.
The sudden burst of interest was after it was posted on a Facebook page called The Science World on April 11. The video has since received 750,000 shares and 37 million views on the platform.
Danail Obreschkow, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia, created the video in 2012 via an iOS app.
The video was intended for one of his lessons at the university, where he was teaching "an arts class ... a bunch of 200 non-scientists," he told the ABC, explaining that it was a different way to teach them about the different scales of the universe.
Obreschkow said he tried to spread the YouTube video when it was first created, but with little success.
"I even remember us paying a PR guy from the United States who spreads YouTube videos. I paid a couple of hundred dollars and nothing really came out of it apart from a few hundred views," he told the ABC.
Another strange case of rediscovery on the Internet.
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