Animation of Earth's movement through space

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Animation of Earth's movement through space | Boing Boing

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[NukeML]

Wow that video had more point-of-view shifts than a Michael Bay movie. Dizzying

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Wheeeeee!!

[FloridaManJefe]

[kmoser]

This did not call for vertical video, and it definitely did not call for a video without forward/back controls.

[babVU98i]

Why do I find YouTube shorts so annoying? I love this subject matter but the presentation disappoints.

[ashe]

VVS, screw that…

Vertical Video Syndrome A PSA (Glove and Boots)

I can’t think of any celestial mechanics that doesn’t benefit from widescreen resolution.

[NukeML]

Its all for the algorithm. Shorts are just about always in vertical format, made to be consumed on a phone being held vertically. Shorts get more reach and can help with establishing a new channel.

Otherwise, yeah worst format for this application

[ghostbloke]

For all who dislike the YouTube shorts format, James O’Donoghue has a YouTube channel showing off the animations he makes on comparisons between planets and the ways they move. He started showing off these animations as GIFs on Twitter; he has joined Mastodon recently. While none of those are done with the Milky Way as the frame of reference, there are some animations about barycenters.

Everything in the Solar System orbits the center of mass (it's rarely in the center of the Sun!)

The Earth-Moon Barycenter: The Moon doesn't orbit Earth's center and Earth doesn't stay still (3D!)

[hecep]

Hurtling are we.

[smulder]

Odd Stuff (Part 1)

I don’t think this is actually true There was a whole controversy about it last year Ken Rice of the University of Edinburgh, UK, criticised the paper for an “elementary” mistake about celestial mechanics. “It’s well known that the sun moves around the barycentre of the solar system due to the influence of the other solar system bodies, mainly Jupiter,” he says. “This does not mean, as the paper is claiming, that this then leads to changes in the distance between the sun and the Earth.” “Th…