Thread: The Scale of the Universe

I just found this, this epic flash-animation needs to be seen by everyone!

http://htwins.net/scale2/

Enjoy, and don't forget to breath

nice find, wish they added Middle Earth
instead of the world of Minecraft though :P

That was incredible! Just think, our galaxy is in a group of galaxies that is along other groups of galaxies. The scale is just incredible!

I've played with that before... It really is incredible.

the photopic sky survey is another great one, if you want to feel small.

http://skysurvey.org/ - click the interactive 360* picture and sit back in awe

Originally Posted by sir-rinthian

I've played with that before... It really is incredible.

the photopic sky survey is another great one, if you want to feel small.

http://skysurvey.org/ - click the interactive 360* picture and sit back in awe

I was really humbled by that sky survey. The size of the universe is staggering.

i like this one for perspective. Star Size Comparison HD

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

I was really humbled by that sky survey. The size of the universe is staggering.

And that's just .001% of the universe...

And each one of those stars has at least 1 planet in orbit, scientists are saying.

Sounds of Universe - 007 (mixed by Far & Away)

Symphony of Science-We Are All Connected

Originally Posted by enginekid

i like this one for perspective. Star Size Comparison HD

Several hundred billion stars in our galaxy out of a hundred billion galaxies. That's freaking huge!

The video of a book passage that sparked my interest in science as a kid.

pretty epic thread, thanks for posting the videos I'm also one of those kids that grew watching COSMOS movies by Carl Sagan, check them out might learn something good from them.

+rep

I love this thread:

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f7/astronomy-pics-images-space-1059015/

I really start to feel dizzy when i think about how small i am.

Originally Posted by DarkBeauty.

I really start to feel dizzy when i think about how small i am.

To understand why you feel the way you do, you need to enter this machine

Cool stuff, thanks for the shares

Originally Posted by enginekid

I love this thread:

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f7/astronomy-pics-images-space-1059015/

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Nice thread. Astronomy and the Universe in general have always been of great interest to me. Maybe one day waaay down the road our descendants will be taking deep space tours =)

I heard they're offering tours of Brandywine for $25.00...

Originally Posted by Panahasi

I heard they're offering tours of Brandywine for $25.00...

Money well spent.. ^^

Each point of light is a cluster of galaxies, the large the balls of light the larger the cluster of galaxies. The universe is massive and I am not sure any picture, video or wordy description does it justice.

Originally Posted by DarkBeauty.

I really start to feel dizzy when i think about how small i am.

I scrolled the other way!

Very nice thread, thanks for sharing!

This is amazing, don't you wish you could see this everynight and fall asleep?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGYrx...eature=related

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

Just think ...

I support this !

heres a other perspective on that topic: Galaxy Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

Great thread - need more spacey stuff to keep me entertained!

Venus Transit 2012 - Ultra-high Definition View (NASA/ESA)

This movie shows the transit of Venus on 5-6 June 2012 as seen from SWAP, a Belgian solar imager onboard ESA's PROBA2 microsatellite. SWAP, watching the Sun in EUV light, observes Venus as a small, black circle, obscuring the EUV light emitted from the solar outer atmosphere - the corona - from

19:45

UT onwards. At

22:16

UT - Venus started its transit of the solar disk

The bright dots all over the image ('snow storm') are energetic particles hitting the SWAP detector when PROBA2 crosses the South Atlantic Anomaly, a region where the protection of the Earth magnetic field against space radiation is known to be weaker.

Note also the small flaring activity in the bright active region in the northern solar hemisphere as Venus passes over. Towards the end, you can see a big dim inverted-U-shape moving away from the Sun towards the bottom-right corner. This is a coronal mass ejection taking off.

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http://blogs.esa.int/venustransit/

(Credit: ESA/ROB)

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Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth's atmospheric chemistry and climate. SDO provides images with resolution 8 times better than high-definition television and returns more than a terabyte of data each day.

On June 5 2012, SDO collected images of the rarest predictable solar event--the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. This event happens in pairs eight years apart that are separated from each other by 105 or 121 years. The last transit was in 2004 and the next will not happen until 2117.

The videos and images displayed here are constructed from several wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light and a portion of the visible spectrum. The red colored sun is the 304 angstrom ultraviolet, the golden colored sun is 171 angstrom, the magenta sun is 1700 angstrom, and the orange sun is filtered visible light. 304 and 171 show the atmosphere of the sun, which does not appear in the visible part of the spectrum.

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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.html

(Credit: NASA/SDO)

atmosphere vaporizing X-rays!

63 light years away? That means what the Hubble saw was 63 years old already. Amazing.

Just think, someone somewhere could be watching our planet as it crosses in front of our sun.

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

63 light years away? That means what the Hubble saw was 63 years old already. Amazing.

Just think, someone somewhere could be watching our planet as it crosses in front of our sun.

yeah really hey

And i sure hope our sun doesn't belch out one of these and burn off our atmosphere!

I'm never sure whether to be amazed or have an existential crisis whenever I realize how big the universe is and how itty-bitty I am.

Originally Posted by Micrathene

I'm never sure whether to be amazed or have an existential crisis whenever I realize how big the universe is and how itty-bitty I am.

Just think, we could get lost for weeks in the Empire's Executor and that thing is microscopic in our solar system, let alone the Universe.

NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Ready For Historic Landing Tonight


NASA's Mars Mission: Weather on Mars looks great for huge rover landing tonight at Gale Crater on Mars: NASA's one-ton, nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" will land on the red planet tonight.

Love these videos

If yo havent seen the BBC programs Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe presented by Prof Brian Cox then keep an eye out for them. They are just fantastic programs

Largest Sky Map Revealed: An Animated Flight Through the Universe


Published on Aug 13, 2012 by Best0fScience

http://www.facebook.com/ScienceReason ... Largest Sky Map Revealed: An Animated Flight Through the Universe. The first public data release from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Led by Berkeley Lab scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's BOSS is bigger than all other spectroscopic surveys combined for measuring the universe's large-scale structure.


The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). In this release BOSS, the largest of SDSS-III's four surveys, provides spectra for 535,995 newly observed galaxies, 102,100 quasars, and 116,474 stars, plus new information about objects in previous Sloan surveys (SDSS-I and II).

Originally Posted by enginekid

Largest Sky Map Revealed: An Animated Flight Through the Universe

535,995 newly observed galaxies,

My mind is trying to comprehend that and it's not doing a very good job.

Just think, there could be an intergalactic empire where one civilization rules 1,000 of those galaxies and it would still be a small speck in the scale of the universe.

I'm really humbled just thinking about this.

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

My mind is trying to comprehend that and it's not doing a very good job.

Just think, there could be an intergalactic empire where one civilization rules 1,000 of those galaxies and it would still be a small speck in the scale of the universe.

I'm really humbled just thinking about this.

Maybe an infinite number of galaxies out there. It's actually possible we could run into the Ferengi someday