Reaper Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Have you guys heard of this site here: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/universe.html Basically, it is an attempt to map the entire visible universe. Each little speck represents clusters of galaxies. Damn, that's pretty big. The map also allows you to zoom in on our part of the universe, and gives some interesting facts about the number of stars within a given patch of space. There's alot more in it too, like the big bang data, and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark matter Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Wow, that's really neat. It gives you an idea of how big we really are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antimatter Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 We're in the center... There's no center in the universe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaneda Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Reaper. A great site. Thanks. Creation super-geniuses Pat Robertson and Jerry Fulwell have told us that we are the only intelligent life in the whole universe (of maybe 7x10^22 stars). Two more handy sites for putting things in perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMV_zDQaq9o YouTube - Cosmic Zoom http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm The Size Of Our World Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 We're in the center...There's no center in the universe... That's not really a problem. Every point is at the centre of it's own observable universe. All that the map represents is picking coordinates such that the Galaxy is at the centre of it's observable universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Reaper. A great site. Thanks. Creation super-geniuses Pat Robertson and Jerry Fulwell have told us that we are the only intelligent life in the whole universe (of maybe 7x10^22 stars). Two more handy sites for putting things in perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMV_zDQaq9o YouTube - Cosmic Zoom Pretty cool for a video that's now 40 years old! Here's one from an IMAX (I think) called Cosmic Voyage that really I liked... it's of the same flavor, but a little newer. Enjoy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5757507304603419799&q=cosmic+voyage&total=84&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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