A Hangout for Monkeys

A Hangout for Monkeys

Saturday, May 7, 2011

How Big Is Our Cosmic Backyard?

The thing about space...

It is big, really, really big - way bigger than one could possibly imagine. It's easy to hear words like hundreds of trillions, but when cosmologists talk about millions of lightyears from one star to the next, we cannot possibly visualize just how damn big space is.

The video below will help put space in perspective. Just how big are objects floating around in our universe?

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