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Scale of Universe is an interactive experience to inspire people to learn about the vast ranges of the visible and invisible world. Click on objects to learn more.
HQ. The Scale of the Universe 2. Created by Cary Huang. Ported to Pixi.js by Matthew Martori.
An interactive visualization of the enormous objects in our universe. See how the Earth compares to the Sun, black holes and the Milky Way.
Things in our universe can be unimaginably large and small. In this topic, we'll try to imagine the unimaginable!
The Scale of the Universe is an interactive online visualization tool first created in 2010 by Cary and Michael Huang, two brothers from Moraga, California.
The Scale of the Universe. Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way! Press left or right or drag the scroll bar to zoom in and out.
But to get a sense of the universe, itself, the observable universe-- and we have to be clear. Because we can only observe light that started leaving from its source 13.7 billion years ago. Because that's how old the universe is.
Cosmologists think inflation explains many aspects of the universe we observe today, like its flatness, or lack of curvature, on the largest scales. Inflation may have also magnified density differences that naturally occur on space’s smallest, quantum-level scales, which eventually helped form the universe’s large-scale structures.
Nov 3, 2021 · The scale of the Universe: subatomic particles are the smallest objects currently known to scientists and galaxy clusters are the largest. Pictures not to scale. Image: Fermilab Office of Education and Public Engagement
The top ranked scientific justification for building Hubble was to determine the size and age of the Universe through observations of Cepheid variables in distant galaxies. This scientific goal was so important that it put constraints on the lower limit of the size of Hubble's primary mirror.
