Observable Universe. 1.7E26m
About 18 billion light years expanse to horizon of physically visible space. Each dot represents one or more galaxies, over one million total. Foggy sections are obscured by the Milky Way.
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Local Galactic Supercluster. 2.7E24m
About 300 million light years across. Cluster of clusters of galaxies, centered on Virgo cluster. Each dot represents a galaxy, several hundred total.
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Local Galactic Cluster. 9E22m
Segment about 10 million light years across. Showing over a dozen galaxies.
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Galaxy Similar to Ours. 5.2E20m
NGC4414, about 56,000 light years across. Contains about 100 billion stars.
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Local Star Clusters. 9.5E17m
NGC884/NGC869, about 100 light years across. Over 400 stars shown.
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Sun. 1.4E9m
About 1.4 million km in diameter, and 150 million km (1.5E11m) away.
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Solar System. 2.5E8m
Relative sizes to scale, not distance. About 4.5 billion km (4.5E12m) to Neptune.
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Earth. 1.3E7m
Relative sizes to scale, not distance. 12,756km diameter. Moon is 3,476km diameter (3.5E6m) averaging 384,400km (3.8E8m) orbit.
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North America. 4E6m
About 4,000km across. Derived from Google Earth.
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Chicago. 4.5E4m
About 45km shown, north side.
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Neighborhood. 5E2m
Showing Berwyn and Sheridan lakefront path entrance. About 500m shown.
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Apartment. 1E1m
About 10m wide.
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Self. 2E0m
Point of recursive self inclusion. Closest panel to actual size. Crossover where scale inverts.
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Cells. 2E-5m
micrograph of retinal neurons and supporting cells. Averaging 20 micrometers long.
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Molecules. 9E-9m
Hydrocarbon. Section about 9 nanometers across. Scanning Tunneling Electron Micrograph rendering.
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Instantons. 1.6E-35m
Visualized cloud of minimum topologically nontrivial fields in Euclidean space. Plank Length realm of smallest meaningful quanta size.
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Zoom Project: Wall Prints
2E0m (about 7ft wide)
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