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Sep 5 2014 05:25am
damn dawg we are small o.o
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Sep 5 2014 03:53pm
For a long, long time, we've known that galaxies should map onto much larger "family" scales that the Virgo supercluster could not account for -- the case in point is that the "Great Attractor" defines the patterned existence of loads of galaxies. This isn't news by any means ;)

It's a re-representation of what we already know. It's spectacular, but a better reminder of our smallness is this (more scaling): http://htwins.net/scale/
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Sep 5 2014 08:52pm
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For a long, long time, we've known that galaxies should map onto much larger "family" scales that the Virgo supercluster could not account for -- the case in point is that the "Great Attractor" defines the patterned existence of loads of galaxies. This isn't news by any means ;)

It's a re-representation of what we already know. It's spectacular, but a better reminder of our smallness is this (more scaling): http://htwins.net/scale/


I know its not news; just in case some one needed a reminder.

Its hard to wrap a head around the massiveness of the universe. Its incredible to say the least
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Sep 8 2014 08:51pm
This has probably been posted here before but I always find it neat.
http://htwins.net/scale2/?bordercolor=white
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