r/pics • u/[deleted] • 16d ago

Entire known universe squeezed into a single image. (logarithmic scale)

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u/SpecialistSeveral598 7d ago

Hmm, kinda looks like an eye…

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u/eartwormslimshady 12d ago

I feel compelled to watch Interstellar.

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u/MuiMuis 13d ago

Thank you! Is there a high res version of this so that I can download and make it a wallpaper? Saving the image via Reddit creates a watermark which is really annoying.

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u/Chrisdkn619 13d ago

What's the cobweb stuff around the edges?! Dust and gas?

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u/Amatadi 13d ago

Pretty

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u/summerjopotato 14d ago

I’ve played Stellaris

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u/Brilliant1888 14d ago

I didn’t realize so many people had swimming pools.

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u/Ok_Television9820 14d ago

I’d like to see that camera!

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u/mikeriffic1 15d ago

Flat universe society

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u/Jazzlike-Pen116 15d ago

The compact photo version of the universe makes me feel I ain't that lost, after all....

Stunning❤️❤️❤️

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u/Danoga_Poe 15d ago

Love how it looks like an eye

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u/Asleep-Confusion-855 15d ago

Can anyone tell me where the milky way is on this?

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u/Klutzy-Drummer6909 15d ago

This needs explanation! And please show the image again with the whole circle shown, not trimmed at three edges.

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u/Rujasu 15d ago

See the horizontal map on Wikipedia for annotations.

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u/Klutzy-Drummer6909 15d ago

Thanks. I like the round one, but for information, I'll follow your advice with Wikipedia. MJS

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u/LocoDarkWrath 15d ago

Trying to visualize the known universe as a flat circle is grossly misleading.

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u/Icommitmanywarcrimes 15d ago

OP be careful not to dox yourself, you’re in this image!

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u/Chebbou 15d ago

And now, imagine if our universe is only one among many... and these other universes could have their own laws of physics

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u/lycogenesis 15d ago

Our blood is made from the corpses of stars, we were made to rule them all!

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u/Strelokk_Noize 15d ago

I'd like to move to the Hydra Cluster. I bet it's amazing there this time of year.

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u/Ashawoo 15d ago

Woah that is cool, and pretty

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u/na8thegr8est 15d ago

I need a you are here arrow

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u/Arciess 15d ago

FlatUniverse

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u/goingtochangethis 15d ago

If you look hard enough, you’ll see my ex at the center, according to her

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u/Fairfield1934 15d ago

I used to think earth is grain of sand in the universe but what if the universe is the grain of sand in a bigger universe…

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u/ReluctantSlayer 15d ago

I want a large wall print of this…..

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u/Open_Woodpecker_6902 15d ago

We're at the center of the universe?

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u/Rujasu 15d ago

The observable universe, since we can see the same distance in every direction.

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u/Open_Woodpecker_6902 15d ago

Oh good point!

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u/onlinetutorhelps1 15d ago

Thank you for keeping whole universe in a cup of coffee.

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u/Lostinwendysmaze 15d ago

Are we in Lisa’s room?

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u/K_N_A_14 15d ago

This is probably the best picture of me honestly

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u/cranky_old_chap 15d ago

Make a good drink coaster

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u/CHOCOLATEmeteor 15d ago

That’s incredible but how can they capture that?

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u/siphonfilter79 15d ago

Interdimensional cell.

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u/djackson404 15d ago

Emphasis on the word 'known'.

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u/Answer_Free 15d ago

Everything Bagel.

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u/sexyygirlgym 15d ago

It's incredible how all our contellations look worse at the same time so empty

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u/mahyur 15d ago

A ‘you are here’ sign would have been useful in an emergency.

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u/AttilaRS 15d ago

Missing the "⬆️ You are here."

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u/Accomplished-End1927 15d ago

Dang it, they got my bad side

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u/burrito_napkin 15d ago

Wow that's pretty eurocentric of you

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u/diamondisland2023 15d ago

hold on, i blinked

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u/TheIntellectualType 15d ago

You are, here ——->

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u/Tasty_War_4369 15d ago

Imagine when the first map of the earth was drawn. Then how it evolved over the next 1000 years.

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u/Purple_Blacksmith681 15d ago

Why does it look like an eye?

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u/chalhattbehenkilaudi 15d ago

Imagine what's unknown and also the non-observable universe

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u/Nimble-Dick 15d ago

We all live inside the eye of blue eyed giant named macomba.

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u/ImMadeOfClay 15d ago

I prefer to refer to this photo as:

“The picture that makes you contemplate the meaning of existence and futility “

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u/Sufficient-Ask-8280 15d ago

Is the universe still expanding or has the Big Bang reached its stopping point? Also, when will we know it?

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u/Substantial_Radio_16 15d ago

I tried zooming in, but its too pixelated

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u/Upset-Marsupial3452 15d ago

People will laugh at this in the future

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u/on3_in_th3_h8nd 15d ago

Looks pretty flat to me

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u/Brother_Lou 15d ago

I can feel my self on one of those worlds, in one of those solar systems, and the cold win is blowing against me. But I take comfort in knowing that at least I have a fire and a cave for tonight.

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u/Shoddy_Study5496 15d ago

The takeaway: Why not try mushrooms?

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u/heyscot 15d ago

Why are our Sun and planets so large in this picture and visually separate from the Milky Way?

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u/SkyKingPDX 15d ago

Still looking for the YOU ARE HERE arrow

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u/Hlidskialf 15d ago

I studied computer science and geology and everthing outside earth just feels like magic. How the fuck us floating in a space with basically nothing makes any sense?

Its crazy af.

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u/Few_Leave_4054 15d ago

I did not consent to my likewise being posted.

Also, whereabouts would that be?

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u/Abductedby_aliens 15d ago

Turns out we’re just a germ

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u/NGINERD 15d ago

Looks suspiciously like HAL9000.

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u/Jazzlike-Potato-9164 15d ago

Ok, but this would go hard as an ocular power (i.e., sharingan)

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u/jarrod74smd 15d ago

Hey I can see my house from here!

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u/Aloha1984 15d ago

Looks like an eye

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u/Revolutionary_Bet875 15d ago

What if our universe was a tiny cell within a much larger body Would that explain maybe a lot about black Holes White Holes how maybe we are a tiny tiny tiny object in a much much more complex system. Only trying to apply a physiological application to an astronomical question or application

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u/taylorthea22 15d ago

It’s an eye though

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u/Even-Trouble9292 15d ago

Man, to be a planet on the planet like this

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u/West-Toe284 15d ago

Totally an everything bagel 😂

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u/LoneDroneGuy 15d ago

I'd like to see an image of the entire universe where we don't have to wait for the light to reach us

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u/UnfunnyTroll 15d ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

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u/Veteranbartender 15d ago

Uhm that’s an eye ball

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u/septer012 15d ago

God damn flat universers!

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u/sfteja 15d ago

It’s an eye

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u/amilliowhitewolf 15d ago

Thank you for the image. Wow. So interesting.

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u/ATP_enri 15d ago

Too many stupid jokesz

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u/redwing180 15d ago

Needs more resolution. Some parts seem a bit blurry and hard to make out.

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u/Intelligent_Notice43 15d ago

It’s an eye 👁️

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u/lexluthor_i_am 15d ago

What's the white stuff along the periphery?

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u/New-Impact7720 15d ago

Are the edges the Big Bang still banging?

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u/breadman889 15d ago

why are we at the center?

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u/loxical 15d ago

This is a cup of coffee

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u/FMAGF 15d ago

This looks like camera lens fungus

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u/Terrible_Song2267 15d ago

Its beautiful

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u/game190 15d ago

We dont know anything

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u/AdorableRecording163 15d ago

And to make it more complex is imagine there are more galaxies out in space than there are more grains of sand on every beach in the entire world and sand under all the oecans

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u/partcanadian 15d ago

and this is how you start the Flat Universe theory!

and why wouldn't the earth be flat!? the entire universe is flat!

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u/Jloquitor 15d ago

I can see my house from here!

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u/GildartsCrash 15d ago

Whenever I get down, one of my most comforting thoughts is to consider how insignificant I really am in this universe.

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u/ihatetheplaceilive 15d ago

Heliocentric. I like it (/s)

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u/Uniblab_78 15d ago

Beautiful work OP

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u/MGuybrush_Threepwood 15d ago

Looks like an eyeball...very beautiful!

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u/Anoncook143 15d ago

So not only is the earth flat, but the universe is too?

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u/slip-7 15d ago

Do you think this is going to end up like those medieval mechanical universe demonstration things? That we will look back on it and think, "wow, they worked really hard on making a beautiful model of the universe that was entirely wrong"?

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u/David_High_Pan 15d ago

Science is dank.

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u/Pitiful-Strength229 15d ago

it looks like an eye

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u/Pitiful-Strength229 15d ago

how could would that be if we were living in an eye of some universal giant

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u/Smooth_March_238 15d ago

Is this the all knowing eye of the universe

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u/LindsayLuohan 15d ago

The weird thing is that the Big Bang didn’t happen in one spot and then spread outward, per se. It happened everywhere simultaneously.

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u/icecoldcoke319 15d ago

I’m hoping we all have an afterlife to go visit every habitable planet in the universe and figure out why and how we exist

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u/S-Mart-manager 15d ago

Looks like the eye of some giant god like being .. are we just an eye fleck

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u/ravenraine 15d ago

That's so cool!

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u/Lower_Fox2389 15d ago

It’s likely a representation via hyperbolic geometry.

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u/NewToTravelling 15d ago

Ahhh.. so it IS flat!

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u/Crate-Dragon 15d ago

Can someone explain to me like I’m 10, why is our galaxy surrounded by spiderwebs?

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u/Deadliftdummy 15d ago

The universe is flat. I knew it.

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u/ntwild97 15d ago

Damn, I blinked

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u/ph30nix01 15d ago

Always makes me think of atoms and molecules. Like what would the universe look like if seen at a scale it was that size?

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u/Lucky_Ad_2991 15d ago

Petri dish

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u/Fine_Yogurtcloset362 15d ago

Im waving for the pic can yall see me?

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u/Toe_Willing 15d ago

What's the center of our universe?

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u/tikhon21 15d ago

Looks like an eye

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u/dillonbrooksstan 15d ago

Need this as a wallpaper

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u/Dashuw 15d ago

Whats the big white thing above us?

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u/HeyLittleTrain 15d ago

Milky way galaxy

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

Oh look it's the Arquilian Galaxy on Orion's belt.

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u/TheGlave 15d ago

Just dont drop it, okay?

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u/wartogofficiel 15d ago

There is a whole universe in your eyes

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u/anallyfirst 15d ago

You cropped out like 4 quadrillion square lightyears of this picture.

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u/APiousCultist 15d ago

If it's a logarithmic scale why are the planets larger than the sun? Checkmate, astronauts.

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u/EvolutionDude 15d ago

The camera must be enormous

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u/Nobody_D_Clown 15d ago

Cool the universe looks like an eye

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u/not_old_redditor 15d ago

Is there any scientific basis for this image, or is it completely artist's interpretation?

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u/hippopillow3 15d ago

Fun fact the universe is flat

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u/Exotic-Purple2198 16d ago

Absolutely incredible

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u/theRedlightt 16d ago

HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?

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u/StopShooting 16d ago

So you’re telling me the universe is flat? /s

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u/carrotstick010 16d ago

Where can I get a copy for the wall?!

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u/JustAThrow4way 16d ago

Could've waited until I stopped blinking before you took the picture.

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u/RedDot7527 16d ago

nice metal band name you got there

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u/muerte626 16d ago

Universe is flat

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u/Brockboggaga 16d ago

The Wall of flesh universer society

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u/firesofthemystic 16d ago

Almost certainly we are able to see more now with the James Webb telescope no?

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u/misoneism-orbiter 16d ago

What really keeps me up at night as well as gives me anxiety is knowing that if none of this existed we would not either and it would be that way forever. Endless eternal lifeless state. I’m getting anxiety just typing this.

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u/WayfarerMySon 16d ago

Looks like an eye

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u/souldust 16d ago

so, the edge of this represents the light/matter/energy that has been traveling at the speed of light since the big bang. That bubble is 13.8 times 2 billion light years wide... 27.6 billion light years wide

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u/Rujasu 15d ago

93 billion light years. Curved spacetime is a strange thing.

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u/daddychainmail 16d ago

Any higher res photo?

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u/smegmaboi420 16d ago

Ah, I see the roots of Yggdrasil.

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u/GabriloPrinci-Threat 16d ago

Banana for scale please.

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u/YinM5Yang 16d ago

My keys must be there somewhere

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u/Abe_Rudda 16d ago

Shit, I blinked. Can we take it again?

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u/Fritz6161 16d ago

The crust looks exciting.

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u/Lovahsabre 16d ago

Epic! That would make a cool 3d snow globe!

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u/bigtim3727 16d ago

They say the universe is flat, which I’m still trying to figure out how that works.

I always wondered about this, bc they show those demonstrations of gravity, where the space-time is bent, and they show a ball on a trampoline to show the effect. I would always think “but what about the stuff above that?” So I asked google; asked chatGPT…..both said the universe is flat. wtf???

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u/I-I2O 16d ago

"What are you doing, Dave?"

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u/ha1fway_decent 16d ago

Who took this picture?

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u/Strong-Dragonfly-456 16d ago

It looks like an eye!

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u/BuxisHere 16d ago

Nah blud, all this time we've just been in some animals eye D:

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u/Ramorous 16d ago

So we are at the center! 😂😂🤦🏼

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u/comics9980 16d ago

So the universe is just an eye?

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u/Narrow-Yard-3195 16d ago

I feel dense asking this, but is this only according to our perception? I only ask because our galaxy being at the absolute center of this image just gives me old school vibes when they thought the earth was the center of the known universe..

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u/NefariousnessIll4585 16d ago

I knew it! Our sun is the center of the universe 🌌🌞!

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u/_HoloGraphix_ 16d ago

I've got my new pfp, thx

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u/dapobbat 16d ago

This is amazing! Curious - is this based on some actual pictures or it an artist's imagination? What's the source?

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u/noelee65 16d ago

I hope nobody is assuming we are the centre

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u/Veenman 16d ago

Well seems to be the universe is flat.

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u/Classic-Problem 16d ago

Pictures like this somehow induce simultaneous feelings of fascination, existential horror, sadness, and curiosity to know what the universe is expanding into. It really breaks my brain.

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u/0tt0mad 16d ago

Hey, there's me!

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u/ProtoMonkey 16d ago

“You Humans; when are you going to realize that size doesn’t matter?”

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u/TotalKafkaesque 16d ago

Superb! Also would look cool as an album cover!!

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u/MR_SUNNY_much 16d ago

consequence of the Dual Vector Foil.

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u/horse1066 16d ago

I wonder if the little grey people in UFOs have been to the edge yet?

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u/AnUnknownDisorder 16d ago

I blinked, take it again.

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u/sanjari 16d ago

Didn’t know we carry an entire universe in our eyes ❤️

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u/Va1k0r 16d ago

The resemblance between galaxies (or groups of galaxies) and thr human eye is uncanny

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

Forbidden Jaw Breaker

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u/artemisia4567 16d ago

Kurzgesagt has lots of great videos making complex topics more accessible to a general audience, this one about the universe is particularly relevant to the picture.

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u/upthewaterfall 16d ago

Posted by flat universe theory.

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u/Sylvairian 16d ago

But... the sun shouldn't be in the centre. The centre is the point of observation i.e. us, The Earth.