Keeping track of just how much stuff we throw away everyday is not at all an easy job, but have you ever imagined trying to capture that on a global scale for nearly 60 years, that too in space. A latest video has accomplished this staggering feat as it has visualized decades of space debris accumulation around the Earth.

The visualization has been generated by Dr Stuart Grey, a lecturer at University College London. It has captured the accumulation from 1957 through to 2015. Presently, there are estimated to be over 20,000 space junk items trapped in Earth's orbit.

The space junk includes dead satellites, old engine parts and other floating junk that are generated from collisions in space or by space missions.

The video has been taken from an interactive graphic carried under 'A Place in Space', in the advent calendar of Royal Institution.

The video has amazingly illustrated the thick haze of space trash in the Earth’s orbit and how the swarming mass of objects reached there.

The animation has beautifully tracked the slow start of the space race. The first piece of man-made space trash was the rocket body used for launching Sputnik, which is the Russian satellite the USSR launched in 1957. The first effort from the US, Explorer 1 closely followed it.

The numerous objects exploded throughout the 1960s while cycling through the years. They were culminated in the moon landings.