The Atlas of the Universe

[Reaper]

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.

[Dark matter]

Wow, that's really neat. It gives you an idea of how big we really are.

[antimatter]

We're in the center...

There's no center in the universe...

[kaneda]

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

[ajb]

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.

[iNow]

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