geniusintraining
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Saw this the other day and want to share it... not that its the first time I have thought about it, but now that I am getting a little older every day I am starting to think about things a little different.
This is a new released image from the Hubble that is done in color, so its really nice picture but the way they explained it was hold a dime up at arms length and this is the volume of the picture, to cover every view with a dime is a lot of little times you are looking at
Each little blip on the picture is a universe and since the "Milky Way" is just a blip... I find this very cool to think about.
This is a link for the picture http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/27/image/a/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg
This is the best link... see if you can follow along left to right http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg
I knew the first 4 but did not really think about how small our solar system was in the milky way and since the milky way is 100,000 light years across and has 300B (ish) stars and you can't even see the Milky Way in the Virgo Cluster... number 8 is just un-thinkable (or really cool to think about)
This is a new released image from the Hubble that is done in color, so its really nice picture but the way they explained it was hold a dime up at arms length and this is the volume of the picture, to cover every view with a dime is a lot of little times you are looking at
Each little blip on the picture is a universe and since the "Milky Way" is just a blip... I find this very cool to think about.
This is a link for the picture http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/27/image/a/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg
This is the best link... see if you can follow along left to right http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Earth's_Location_in_the_Universe_(JPEG).jpg
I knew the first 4 but did not really think about how small our solar system was in the milky way and since the milky way is 100,000 light years across and has 300B (ish) stars and you can't even see the Milky Way in the Virgo Cluster... number 8 is just un-thinkable (or really cool to think about)