Check this out: The observable universe in one very cool image
Here is something you don’t see every day: an artist’s logarithmic scale conception of the observable universe with the Solar System at the center, inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort Cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, Cosmic Web, Cosmic microwave radiation and the Big Bang’s invisible plasma on the edge. “… I was drawing hexaflexagons for my son’s birthday (when) I started drawing central views of the cosmos and the solar system,” artist Pablo Budassi told interviewer Kelly Dickerson for the online Tech Insider. “That day the idea of a logarithmic view came and in the next days I was able to it with Photoshop using images from NASA and some textures created by my own.” I spotted this while cruising through some of the science websites I have bookmarked on my browser and thought some of The Current’s readers might enjoying seeing it, too. Please click on the image to see a much larger version. Please click on the links below to find out more. Paul Budassi image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons
Just in case you wondered, hexaflexagons are paper hexagons folded from strips of paper which reveal different faces as they are flexed. Please click on the link below to read detailed instructions on creating hexaflexagons.
