[Presto]

Impressive. It's quite a mind-boggling representation. You'll feel like a titanic giant, or less than a spec of amoeba dandruff, depending on which end of the scale you're looking at.

http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf

EDIT: updated with link that doesn't start with an ad.

[unit]

thats amazing

[rslater]

The most fucked up part for me is that the Hubble Telescope can see all that stuff...

[skyxx]

Wasn't this posted many times? Good for people who hasn't seen it.

[ntan]

The most fucked up part for me is that the Hubble Telescope can see all that stuff...

How are they able to determine the how far away the light detected by the hubble is? For instance, when you completely zoom out, they state that it's 12.7 billion light-years away.

[neggo]

For a moment, I forgot I lived on earth.

[AzNightmare]

Yeah, how scientists figure this stuff out is baffling.
I wonder how much of it is just good guesstimations.

And yeah, this was posted several times in the past already.
Unless the guy updated it and put more info now.

None the less, very cool.

[dinosaur]

:ahwow:

[pinn3r]

Fascinating.
Lots of 'oohs', 'ahhs', and 'holy shits' while reading it
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[Culture_Vulture]

that was fucking fantastic! thanks!

[Razgriz]

Wizard 101 Play for Free!...Seen this before, but amazing still..

took the time to read some of the things this time + The music hahaha

[Culture_Vulture]

HTwins.net - The Scale of the Universe (http://htwins.net/scale/) if anybody's interested, here's the original, by the same guys

[fliptuner]

Anyone else trip out from scrolling in and out too fast?

[Graeme S]

How are they able to determine the how far away the light detected by the hubble is? For instance, when you completely zoom out, they state that it's 12.7 billion light-years away.
Wouldn't they essentially do this by using the speed of light with the estimated age of the universe and then basically saying "If the universe is 6 billion years old then we can see 6,000,000,000 light years in any direction meaning we can roughly see 12,000,000,000 light years out."?

Seems like the logical supposition.

[Mike Oxbig]

If they can see this far out, they can probably see life on other planets but just hiding it from us.

[TheKingdom2000]

If they can see this far out, they can probably see life on other planets but just hiding it from us.

they can't "see" the planets. They just see light and see how it shift's and stuff like that.

To see life on a planet is pretty difficult. Think about the atmosphere. You would have to penetrate that. And think of the resolution you need.

And the biggest reason why I think this isn't true is because there are so many astronomers. And they aren't government controlled. So to find such a discovery, the government could not contain it. It would be published or leaked rather easily

[PJ]

Reminds me of the Dr. Seuss movie Horton Hears a Who.. how our whole planet is nothing but a speck in the bigger perspective.

[hotjoint]

sweet

[sonick]

Gomez' Hamburger?

Giant Earthworm?!

[Arirang]

lol at the minecraft world

[hypercube]

When Im worrying about everyday trivial shit in my life, I just remember this and realize just how insignificant my worries are

[Szeto]

link still contains an Ad.

thanks for the interesting link!

[dub.g]

How are they able to determine the how far away the light detected by the hubble is? For instance, when you completely zoom out, they state that it's 12.7 billion light-years away.

here is a better explanation.. its measured through the photons and redshift that the light travels

The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Measured - YouTube

im actually subscribe to him, he is awesome, constantly posting updates about space and discoveries

The Galaxy's Heart of Darkness - YouTube

[fliptuner]

I was listening to 1130 today and they said the predecessor to Hubble, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be 100 times more powerful. The estimated build cost was 3 billion but was recently estimated to take 8 billion to complete.

James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope)

[FN-2199]

Mind is blown.

http://ulfhedinn.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/blownmind.jpg

[AzNightmare]

If they can see this far out, they can probably see life on other planets but just hiding it from us.

:lawl:

We can't even see "life" when we look at a NASA photograph of our own planet from space.
And this is relatively up close already. If we could get a good photograph (like this) of a planet
outside our own solar system, that would be really lucky.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/Images/AS17-148-22727_350.jpg

[LiquidTurbo]

I think I speak for most of RS:

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/004/592/my-brain-is-full-of-fuck.jpg

[LiquidTurbo]

Keep in mind this is the "OBSERVABLE" universe.

[wobuffet]

link doesn't work...

[Presto]

link doesn't work...

Here's the link:
http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf