This short video was featured as the Astronomy Picture of the Day for December 8, 2014, where you can find more information. The film is comprised of a series of visualizations of what it might be like for humans to wander the solar system. All the background features are accurate artist’s renderings of what we know about the planets and moons of the outer solar system. The imagination of the film maker inserts the humans, and the narration is Carl Sagan.
From the Astronomy Picture of the Day, May 26, 2011. The Supernova sonata is a piece of music composed using the data from the most distant supernovas. Details on the method used, and the background of the composer, Alex Harrison Parker, can be found via the links.
This video has received over 30 millions views since the astronaut Chris Hadfield posted it in 2013. David Bowie considers it the ‘most poignant’ cover of his song.
A perfect example the Equivalence Principle in action, and a good intro to our discussion of local frames, the General Theory of Relativity, and so forth…