43,000 Galaxies
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This is What 43,000 Galaxies Look Like On a Map.
The image above is the most complete map of our local universe to date. It took more that ten years to create, has 43,000 galaxies and extends out 380 million light years from the earth. The 3D coordinates of each galaxy was recorded so the raw data could potentially be used to build a realistic 3D model of the universe. Throw in some holographic technology and you have something straight from Star Trek.
- aldebaran0
pure awesomeness
- seeessess0
They can "put a man on the moon", yet can't take a decent picture of 43,000 galaxies? Meh.
- _niko0
who cares, our world is ending October 21 and Justin Beiber got a new tattoo.
- TheBlueOne0
Where is Alderon?
- team_zissou0
where is the Milky Way in all of this?
- Dodecahedron0
amazing ... and still we will never actually see a huge portion of the universe
- ukit0
Question: where does the universe end? Are there other universes? If so, where do they end?
- Answer: We have no idea.
At all.
It's great!detritus - It's a problem that seems unsolvable by basic logicukit
- It only makes sense with extremely esoteric theoretical physics and even then nobody really gets it and its still not verifiableDodecahedron
- ...verifiable experimentally ot observationally.Dodecahedron
- enter Large Hadron Collider with the answers.Dodecahedron
- our brains can't fathom something that never begins and never ends, doesn't mean it can't exist, mind.set
- Logic is a regional anomaly.Horp
- our brains can fathom it, its a circle. We used ot think we'd fall of the end of a flat earth until we learned about gravity and planetsDodecahedron
- ...and round planets.Dodecahedron
- But stuff still exists outside of the Earth so that doesn't completely workukit
- but space and time is all there is in this universe. the other universes have their own space and time.Dodecahedron
- Actually "the universe" is supposed to represent everything.ukit
- Either way you're faced with the problem of infinityukit
- I guess we probably won't solve it today:)ukit
- for a better infinityDodecahedron
- and beyond!set
- the universe is finite and although it's currently expanding more physicists are saying it will contract/collapse on itself and start cycle overhotroddy
- all speculation.set
- Answer: We have no idea.
- moldero0
love this guy (frank chu in SF)
- CygnusZero40
I dont talk about the universe with anyone anymore. It took me 30+ years to realize we're just not supposed to understand it.
- But look how far we have come in our understandingali
- Im talking about how it all got here, I dont know if thats a question humans will ever be able to answer.CygnusZero4
- Don't agree. That's like them saying 1000 years ago we're just not supposed to understand the earth.set
- Attitudes like that will get us nowhere!set
- cannonball19780
As of last December, the estimated number of known stars in the universe was roughly 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 300 septillion.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.co…- dust in the wind...aliastime
- 000duckseason
- what the fuck?! That shit blows my mind.sureshot
- Dodecahedron0
I'm sure a lot of people have heard of the stars in the galaxy vs grains of sand on a beach analogy... there are about the same amount of stars in the galaxy, around 200 billion, as there are grains of sand on a beach.
I found it hard to imagine but it is almost about true. Around half a billion grains of sand = about a cubic meter of sand, so times that by 400 and you have 200 billion grains of sand that would = a small sized beach, 400 cubic meters of sand.
Its not easy to understand still... to really get what a galaxy is in terms of size you have to now take all of these grains of sand a let them hover in space with hundreds of meters between each and every single one of them to be proportionally the same as a galaxy. Picture every single grain of sand on a beach with a huge distance in between and let them float in space swirling around. Its a really big cloud of sand.
- I visualize the spread out grains of sand by imagining they are starsribit
- not sure exactly how many meters would be in between the grains, i didn't do the math. it would be dozens of meters if not hundreds though.Dodecahedron
- ...not hundreds.Dodecahedron
- and it wouldn't even be a cloud of sand it would be like one grain here ...and one grain way over there etcDodecahedron
- CALLES0
sucks... only been to 8 :(
- team_zissou0
- I have a better chance of understanding the secrets of the universe than why you are still here.CygnusZero4
- keep searchin and stay thirsty , my friend.team_zissou
- actually a good post thoughfresnobob
- reinitialize0
could they have at least made it a little higher res?
(or did they start out making it for 640x480 res 10 years ago?)
- fugged0
My brain is hurting.
- GeorgesII0
pffftttt,
timeline,
I visited half of them astrally,
