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Powers of Ten: The Universe, from Top to Bottom

October 10th, 2007 by Morgan J. Locke

Here is something fun—an animated graphic that shows you the scale of the universe, from big cosmological structures all the way down to clusters of quarks in an atomic nucleus.

Carbon Atom Nucleus

There are a number of these scale tutorials around on the web, but this one is especially well done. (They top out at our local group of galaxies. If they went all the way up to the biggest scale, it’d be perfect.)

Posted in Morgan, Science | 3 Comments »

3 Responses

  1. Stan Says:

    Funny – all that and it didn’t show me as the center of the universe. Hmmm…they must have messed somethng up, right?

  2. Morgan J. Locke Says:

    What?? It must be messed up! ;)

  3. Universe Man Says:

    Great, Super …

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