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Cosmic Eye

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Cosmic Eye is a short film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow.[1] It shows the largest and smallest known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a young lady called "Louise". According to the developer, the film and app were inspired by the essay Cosmic View (1957) and the short films Cosmic Zoom (1968) and Powers of Ten (1977), but use state-of-the-art know-how and new scientific imaging and computer simulations. Cosmic Eye was developed in 2012 and suddenly become famous in April 2016, when it scored 40 million views in ten days on the Facebook group page of "The Science Scoop".[2] The video has since been viewed more than 150 Million times on Facebook (top-ten counts only) and was featured in major media, such as BBC World News.[3]

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