This Visualization of Air Traffic Over Europe Will Mesmerize You

Anyone who's ever been to a really busy airport can guess how complex it must be to guide all those planes safely across the sky. But that's just one airport; can you imagine an overview of all the flights that happen in one day?

NATS Holdings, the main air navigation service provider in the UK, has visualized air traffic over Europe on a typical summer day, and the resulting video is a beauty to behold

The video was created from real flight data, using two sources: UK radar data from June 21 and European flight plan information from July 28.