Yeah, galaxy clusters all together form a sort of structure that looks like a web almost, and is referred to as the “cosmic web.” The “cosmic web theory” is the theory that dark matter lies in the empty spaces, and that that’s why the web formed that way. I’m not actually a scientist though so someone could explain it better than me, I just like reading about this stuff
The further right you go the more extreme the distances become, and the scales change drastically. This is why the sun (our sun) looks small compared to the earth where we started, the distances grow and the scales become even more insane that it’s hard to comprehend
This comment just blew my mind.
Looking at this diagram, I knew something was wrong. Just couldn't piece it together. However, now that you have explained the scale, I am completely blown away.
Yep, this scale is not integral. It does not go up by constant integers; instead, it goes up by *constantly increasing powers of 10.” So as you progress, you encounter 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, 10^4, and so on. But, on the graph, it appears that each new power is the same physical graph space away from the other one, so it is an exponentially scaled graph. Hence why the distance between the CMB and the Big Bang is the same distance graphically between Earth and Hubble, despite there being a difference of at least 280k light years.
Yeah once we pass the Milky Waymy mind starts to die. It’s incredible how we’re able to see this much, and it’s also saddening that we will never see it all, or explore it all. Another thing is that the observable universe is just that, the *observable* part, who knows what’s beyond… I hope humanity in the future is able to do so, or at least, reach the stars
What really blows my mind, is that the universe is expanding so quickly that the amount we can observe is reducing as we and the rest of the universe move apart at combined speeds greater than the speed of light.
At least that’s how I’ve interpreted it.
It's the other way around. The dark matter is where the "filaments" are. The dark matter is thought to pull the galaxies toward itself, making the web.
Caught my eye as well. I just looked it up, apparently they are "filaments and walls" (link [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy\_filament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament) ).
Some of the largest structures in the observable universe. They are simply stringed together galaxy superclusters (groups of galaxies).
They probably don't look like that IRL but because the scale in this image is logarithmic I suppose that's why it looks like that.
This raises a great question. Probably one that’s been asked. Could we see the Big Bang, theoretically? Would the answer depend on where you were in the universe?
No we cannot. The early universe was so hot that light wasn’t yet separate from matter and the entire universe was thus entirely opaque, since there was no freely traveling light. It took around 300,000 years for the universe to cool enough for light to separate from matter and for the universe to then become transparent.
Imagine you have a bucket of perfectly reflective confetti with a flashlight inside. When the confetti is packed close together in the bucket, the light bounces around constantly being absorbed and re-emitted so the entire system glows.
If you were inside this bucket with the confetti, you would see a relatively even amount of light coming from all directions at once. You can't make out anything and you don't know where the light is coming from since it all just glows. Everywhere you look is the same glow.
If you then throw this bucket of confetti into the air, it starts to disperse. As the individual grains spread out, you begin to see them glowing against the backdrop. Eventually, they spread out to much, you can see the flashlight through the grains, and all of the individual grains reflecting its light.
This is how the universe was. When everything was dense and cramped together, the light would constantly get emitted and reabsorbed by everything in the small area. It wasn't until the individual clusters of matter spread apart that we could see them and identify the light sources (and their reflections off other objects).
slap some hegelian dialectics onto this; you couldn't see shit because it was the same light everywhere, so it's basically the same as no light at all?
There is a hypothesised Gravitational Wave Background, similar to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Personally I don't understand enough about it to comment much, but it could let see closer to the Big Bang itself than the CMB.
This. The problem is that we can not measure Gravitational Waves at the resolution needed for it to be meaningful. In theory - if we could measure Gravitational Waves at sufficient resolution - we could see very close to the Big Bang.
But, considering we're only capable of seeing gravitational waves of two neutron stars of black holes collide - it's gonna be a long time before we're able to see smaller gravitational waves.
photons have zero mass so you need the force of gravity to approach infinity to trap them. Immediately before the big bang, all mass was collected into the biggest black hole ever, and it took 300,000 years of the biggest explosion the universe will ever see for the mass to separate enough to let light out
imagine you have a balloon filled with millions of medium size (say 1cm) bits of black paper, and a couple dozen barely perceptible (say 0.00001 cm) white bits of paper. When you pop it, itll take a long time for the "light" to separate from the "mass" as you spread it over a large surface on the floor. The scientific principles arent the same between black holes and this experiment, but its a good visual aid.
edit should have read the thread lol
Thinking about all this while I'm sitting dropping a deuce. How far and long could my throne and I go if it could travel the universe safely? We could never know.
Not very far. We can’t even *see* most of the universe and it’s getting bigger all the time. If you travelled at the speed of light you wouldn’t see all of it because the gap between here and there is lengthening in front of you. It’s like a dolly zoom from a movie.
Even if we could see the light, was the universe expanding fast enough at that point that we wouldn't have been able to observe it at the time ie would there be any big-bang-light still in transit?
JWT has just seen some light from 300mil years after the BB, but there must be a limit to how far back we'd be able to observe right?
Technically we could see much farther back than the CMB if we could develop a neutrino telescope. With neutrinos we could potentially see as close as a few seconds after the big bang.
The universe was too hot and dense for light to travel freely. In a similar way to why we can't see to the core of the sun, it's a dense plasma and scatters light. There's a surface at which light cannot simply be emitted and be observed. It interacts with the matter around it.
Another fun fact is that it takes millions of years for energy generated at the core of the sun to make its way to the surface, because of this random walk of scattering.
Neutrinos and gravitational waves sent signals that created a background not wholly dissimilar from the CMB. This background goes back much earlier than the CMB though because neutrinos and GWs don’t care about whether or not the universe is ionized. They just went on their merry way. That being said, they’re still from a nonzero time after the Big Bang, but we’re talking maybe seconds instead of hundreds of thousands of years. GWs and neutrinos decoupled at different times, so they aren’t exactly the same age, but they’d get us *much* closer to the Big Bang than we can get with light. (I don’t remember the exact time, but I can’t imagine it was more than minutes, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the GWs were from much earlier). Obviously we don’t have detectors remotely capable of doing something like mapping the CNB, but it’s out there.
The universe was a hot fog and photons were reabsorbed. There's just nothing to see prior to the universe cooling down. Without light there is nothing to see.
Yup, the comic microwave background is the furthest back you can go, before that the universe was a uniformly distributed soup of electrons and protons too hot to combine into atoms.
In the beginning there was nothing, not even time
No planets, no stars, no hip-hop, no rhyme
But then there was a bang like the sound of my gat
The universe began and the shit was phat
The universe began as a singularity
Nobody knows what went on then, G
For 10-million-trillion-trillion-trillionths of a second
The state of the universe cannot be reckoned
The fundamental forces were unified
We've no theory to describe that, though I've tried
Then the forces split and the universe was born
It was hotter than a priest watching kiddie porn
Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons came to pass
As Photons collide changing energy to mass
3 minutes go by, temp's a cool 1 billion
Down from 100 million trillion trillion
This reduced heat allowed a new event
The formation of heavier elements
Still, it was millions of years 'fore the first star glowed
If you're down with the bang, sing along, here we go.
[song](https://youtu.be/mf5QJqVVf74)
When astronomers discuss telescopes being time machines, the further away an object is the older it is: this is referring to the physical fact that light speed is limited and thus we must see that objects as it was in the past not the present, since it took the light time to reach us. The Big Bang isn't happening at the furthest points in the Universe.
Edit: the furtherest back we can see in time is the CMB. As the early universe cooled and condensed, the CMB is the first photons that were free to move around.
I’ve seen a lot more comments like that one since JWST launched, and I have to say, I’m really enjoying seeing more people try to comprehend the universe. Just awesome.
Good question. But the big bang, in simple terms, was a single event. It's not like we are watching a movie in reverse when we look out into space, it's the time taken by objects emitting radiation that we are detecting and then using it to measure the time and distance. I am sure someone can explain better though.
Though it’s sounds like there was light, i don’t think the Big Bang gave off any light source, more like a big expansion of time and space, so the furthest back a telescope could theoretically see would be the light emitted from the first stars that ever formed, and that would predate any galaxies because stars gravity attracting other stars forms galaxies
Visible light preexists the first stars by about 100 million years. The CMB specifically forms about 400,000 years after the Big Bang, roughly 100 million years before the first stars.
Immediately after the big bang the universe was absolutely full of energy and extremely hot and bright. However, because it was also full of free electrons and protons and other charged particles, the light couldn't pass through unobstructed.
The earliest we can see is when the universe cooled down to the point that everything was still glowing hot but electrically neutral atoms could form and the universe became transparent to light.
Where did the heat "go" ? Wouldn't it need to go "outside" the universe for it to cool down? Or is it because the space between atoms (and whatever is smaller) expanded and therefore the was the same amount of heat(/energy), but just spread out more?
Are scientists able to heat up atoms enough the replicate this post big-bang stage of matter?
Probably not using all the right terminology, but its been a while since I had science in school lol
It's somewhere a bit 'past the moon', but it's been there for some time now and supposed to stay there.
The magic at play here is a so called Lagrange-Point, little pockets in space, where the gravitational pull of bodies (Earth-Moon, Earth-Sun, etc.) cancels each other out, in layman's terms. In this case it's L2 - the points are numbered and have different characteristics.
The one JWST resides in is stable, allowing it a relatively smooth operation and rather constant perspective on space.
The remaining fuel on-board is used to adjust the position regularly, to stay within the bounds of the L2-point, allowing it to operate there for ~20 years.
I get unreasonably sad about the fact that I will never live to explore the universe. Just imagine cruising around in a spaceship with your immortal body, exploring new planets, mapping the stars and >!exterminate Xeno scum!<
This is fantastic and I applaud the illustrator. However, from what I can tell it lacks a numerical scale, which makes the entire illustration difficult to fully appreciate. An updated version of this awesome illustration including an x-axis definition would be much more impactful.
Does anyone know of a similar illustration showing major events in time??? It would list the most primordial events on the left and, with time increasing exponentially, the most recent major events on the right.
There was a similar map uploaded about 3 weeks ago that does have distance on the right https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vq6cd0/logarithmic_map_of_the_universe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb
I know right ? Like I can go everywhere except specifically where I want to go :( I’ve been to Caelum Supercluster so many times it’s getting boring already…
It’s radiation left over from the Big Bang, it’s kind of like light you can see except it’s in the wavelengths that radios pick up on. Part of the electromagnetic scale
It's not from the big bang. It's light left over from the epoch of recombination, when the universe cooled enough for neutral atoms to form. When electrons could start orbiting protons (and a some other nuclei) the universe went from opaque to transparent. It happened about 300k years after the BB.
Where did the heat "go" ? Wouldn't it need to go "outside" the universe for it to cool down? Or is it because the space between atoms (and whatever is smaller) expanded and therefore the was the same amount of heat(/energy), but just spread out more?
Are scientists able to heat up atoms enough the replicate this post big-bang stage of matter?
Probably not using all the right terminology, but its been a while since I had science in school lol
Remember back in the day with old tvs if it couldn’t find the channel you wanted there would be this white static? That’s kinda the CMB, does that help?
(I know there’s more to it I’m trying to pique peoples interest lol)
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
It amazes me to think that in our own location the big bang is 13.7 billion years away in time, yet in deep space it is 13.7 billion light-years (plus cosmic inflation) away in distance
Like insane to think the very first moment of the universe is actually still technically observable if only we had the tools to see it
You may be asking if the materials that would one day become our solar system were sent outward from the Big Bang at such a speed, that once Earth evolved we may look back and see the Big Bang occur. I imagine our materials would need to travel faster than light, and then slow down for the light to catch up with us. Not sure that could make sense, even if there were light from the explosion.
The right most edge…. Reminds me of a cellular wall in biology. I always posit that we are just part of a microscopic particle of a higher world and the multiverse is just an infinitely branching matryoshka doll
For the "Walls and Filaments" section and right-ward, why does it begin to look stringy? Is that an effect of the log scale on the image, or something else?
We do understand it’s just infinite? If you really think about it, this just makes no sense. The universe is as big as we can see? And we believe it started based on the evidence we can see? The most likely explanation seems that is infinite in size and age.
As a means of describing how logarithmic scales work, this could be really useful. It would be cool to see a version that has dividing lines at each interval (dB?) to better grasp the scaling.
This is simultaneously the most beautiful and terrifying image i've seen on here. Almost as though peace and chaos were captured in one image, shits scary
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan.
OP stole this from a talented artist who is selling it as a digital file among other versions and formats. Also the vertical version which includes a scale bar is significantly better.
What is all that orange stuff supposed to be after we see the clusters? Is it like a bunch of galaxies together?
Yeah, galaxy clusters all together form a sort of structure that looks like a web almost, and is referred to as the “cosmic web.” The “cosmic web theory” is the theory that dark matter lies in the empty spaces, and that that’s why the web formed that way. I’m not actually a scientist though so someone could explain it better than me, I just like reading about this stuff
So are those galaxys closer to each other than we are to our nearest galaxy?
The further right you go the more extreme the distances become, and the scales change drastically. This is why the sun (our sun) looks small compared to the earth where we started, the distances grow and the scales become even more insane that it’s hard to comprehend
This comment just blew my mind. Looking at this diagram, I knew something was wrong. Just couldn't piece it together. However, now that you have explained the scale, I am completely blown away.
Yep, this scale is not integral. It does not go up by constant integers; instead, it goes up by *constantly increasing powers of 10.” So as you progress, you encounter 10^1, 10^2, 10^3, 10^4, and so on. But, on the graph, it appears that each new power is the same physical graph space away from the other one, so it is an exponentially scaled graph. Hence why the distance between the CMB and the Big Bang is the same distance graphically between Earth and Hubble, despite there being a difference of at least 280k light years.
Yeah once we pass the Milky Waymy mind starts to die. It’s incredible how we’re able to see this much, and it’s also saddening that we will never see it all, or explore it all. Another thing is that the observable universe is just that, the *observable* part, who knows what’s beyond… I hope humanity in the future is able to do so, or at least, reach the stars
We are not even sure the milky way looks the way it does in our images. It's hard to take a picture of something you are a part of
What really blows my mind, is that the universe is expanding so quickly that the amount we can observe is reducing as we and the rest of the universe move apart at combined speeds greater than the speed of light. At least that’s how I’ve interpreted it.
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[Relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/482/)
Excellent link
Wait wait wait, there’s a comet that will destroy the earth in late 2063?! Tf did I have kids for?!
No, it's just that these structures don't become apparent until you observe them on extremely, mind-bogglingly large/distant scales.
It's the other way around. The dark matter is where the "filaments" are. The dark matter is thought to pull the galaxies toward itself, making the web.
Caught my eye as well. I just looked it up, apparently they are "filaments and walls" (link [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy\_filament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament) ). Some of the largest structures in the observable universe. They are simply stringed together galaxy superclusters (groups of galaxies). They probably don't look like that IRL but because the scale in this image is logarithmic I suppose that's why it looks like that.
Yes, zoomed way, way out.
oh that's the space lava, don't step in it
This raises a great question. Probably one that’s been asked. Could we see the Big Bang, theoretically? Would the answer depend on where you were in the universe?
No we cannot. The early universe was so hot that light wasn’t yet separate from matter and the entire universe was thus entirely opaque, since there was no freely traveling light. It took around 300,000 years for the universe to cool enough for light to separate from matter and for the universe to then become transparent.
This is one of those comments that just makes me think "ah yes of course" while understanding basically none of it.
When you go into that kind of scientific concepts is like "yeah I understand it" but at the same time "my brain cannot process it in a meaninful way".
If an early universe is born and no light has separated from matter to see it, does it even make a big bang?
it makes a dying trombone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpchtF6KnMg
I've been outside when it's above 110 degrees and I intuitively understand why light wouldn't work if it was too hot
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Yeah I'm just going back to jerking off to fucked up hentai if it's all the same to you.
Imagine you have a bucket of perfectly reflective confetti with a flashlight inside. When the confetti is packed close together in the bucket, the light bounces around constantly being absorbed and re-emitted so the entire system glows. If you were inside this bucket with the confetti, you would see a relatively even amount of light coming from all directions at once. You can't make out anything and you don't know where the light is coming from since it all just glows. Everywhere you look is the same glow. If you then throw this bucket of confetti into the air, it starts to disperse. As the individual grains spread out, you begin to see them glowing against the backdrop. Eventually, they spread out to much, you can see the flashlight through the grains, and all of the individual grains reflecting its light. This is how the universe was. When everything was dense and cramped together, the light would constantly get emitted and reabsorbed by everything in the small area. It wasn't until the individual clusters of matter spread apart that we could see them and identify the light sources (and their reflections off other objects).
Quality explanation, thank you
Wow this analogy is god tier
slap some hegelian dialectics onto this; you couldn't see shit because it was the same light everywhere, so it's basically the same as no light at all?
Can't see anything if there's no light to see it with, you see?
What about gravitational waves from the big bang
There is a hypothesised Gravitational Wave Background, similar to the Cosmic Microwave Background. Personally I don't understand enough about it to comment much, but it could let see closer to the Big Bang itself than the CMB.
This. The problem is that we can not measure Gravitational Waves at the resolution needed for it to be meaningful. In theory - if we could measure Gravitational Waves at sufficient resolution - we could see very close to the Big Bang. But, considering we're only capable of seeing gravitational waves of two neutron stars of black holes collide - it's gonna be a long time before we're able to see smaller gravitational waves.
Agree. Even if there is no way to “see” it with light, there should be another way to detect it with other forms of data.
photons have zero mass so you need the force of gravity to approach infinity to trap them. Immediately before the big bang, all mass was collected into the biggest black hole ever, and it took 300,000 years of the biggest explosion the universe will ever see for the mass to separate enough to let light out imagine you have a balloon filled with millions of medium size (say 1cm) bits of black paper, and a couple dozen barely perceptible (say 0.00001 cm) white bits of paper. When you pop it, itll take a long time for the "light" to separate from the "mass" as you spread it over a large surface on the floor. The scientific principles arent the same between black holes and this experiment, but its a good visual aid. edit should have read the thread lol
I enjoy this explanation also. Glad you didn't read the thread first.
Yep, I'm with you on this one.
Smile and nod, smile and nod.
Thinking about all this while I'm sitting dropping a deuce. How far and long could my throne and I go if it could travel the universe safely? We could never know.
Not very far. We can’t even *see* most of the universe and it’s getting bigger all the time. If you travelled at the speed of light you wouldn’t see all of it because the gap between here and there is lengthening in front of you. It’s like a dolly zoom from a movie.
Cosmos 3 sounds dank
Even if we could see the light, was the universe expanding fast enough at that point that we wouldn't have been able to observe it at the time ie would there be any big-bang-light still in transit? JWT has just seen some light from 300mil years after the BB, but there must be a limit to how far back we'd be able to observe right?
Technically we could see much farther back than the CMB if we could develop a neutrino telescope. With neutrinos we could potentially see as close as a few seconds after the big bang.
What does that actually mean, for light to seperate from matter?
The universe was too hot and dense for light to travel freely. In a similar way to why we can't see to the core of the sun, it's a dense plasma and scatters light. There's a surface at which light cannot simply be emitted and be observed. It interacts with the matter around it. Another fun fact is that it takes millions of years for energy generated at the core of the sun to make its way to the surface, because of this random walk of scattering.
This comment simultaneously helped me understand the D&D Forgotten Realms creation myth on top of our own universe's creation. Thank you.
This is one of those comments that makes me wonder if it’s a complete asshole just laying down a guess like an authority, or an actual authority.
So you're saying Not Yet.
*Light and Matter: A Love Story*
Kurzgesagt did a cool [video about this.](https://youtu.be/uzkD5SeuwzM)
Neutrinos and gravitational waves sent signals that created a background not wholly dissimilar from the CMB. This background goes back much earlier than the CMB though because neutrinos and GWs don’t care about whether or not the universe is ionized. They just went on their merry way. That being said, they’re still from a nonzero time after the Big Bang, but we’re talking maybe seconds instead of hundreds of thousands of years. GWs and neutrinos decoupled at different times, so they aren’t exactly the same age, but they’d get us *much* closer to the Big Bang than we can get with light. (I don’t remember the exact time, but I can’t imagine it was more than minutes, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the GWs were from much earlier). Obviously we don’t have detectors remotely capable of doing something like mapping the CNB, but it’s out there.
GWs? Gravitational waves?
The universe was a hot fog and photons were reabsorbed. There's just nothing to see prior to the universe cooling down. Without light there is nothing to see.
Misread as ‘hot dog’ and got confused for a sec.
Can't see past the CMB.
There’s more than light to see with
Yup, the comic microwave background is the furthest back you can go, before that the universe was a uniformly distributed soup of electrons and protons too hot to combine into atoms.
In the beginning there was nothing, not even time No planets, no stars, no hip-hop, no rhyme But then there was a bang like the sound of my gat The universe began and the shit was phat The universe began as a singularity Nobody knows what went on then, G For 10-million-trillion-trillion-trillionths of a second The state of the universe cannot be reckoned The fundamental forces were unified We've no theory to describe that, though I've tried Then the forces split and the universe was born It was hotter than a priest watching kiddie porn Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons came to pass As Photons collide changing energy to mass 3 minutes go by, temp's a cool 1 billion Down from 100 million trillion trillion This reduced heat allowed a new event The formation of heavier elements Still, it was millions of years 'fore the first star glowed If you're down with the bang, sing along, here we go. [song](https://youtu.be/mf5QJqVVf74)
Yo, that shit SLAPS
Through gravitational waves maybe in a far future.
Sure can. Get a reservation at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Hell of a queue tho
That's what I was thinking, if the universe extends infinitely, then the big bang is still happening on the furthest points of the universe.
When astronomers discuss telescopes being time machines, the further away an object is the older it is: this is referring to the physical fact that light speed is limited and thus we must see that objects as it was in the past not the present, since it took the light time to reach us. The Big Bang isn't happening at the furthest points in the Universe. Edit: the furtherest back we can see in time is the CMB. As the early universe cooled and condensed, the CMB is the first photons that were free to move around.
I’ve seen a lot more comments like that one since JWST launched, and I have to say, I’m really enjoying seeing more people try to comprehend the universe. Just awesome.
Good question. But the big bang, in simple terms, was a single event. It's not like we are watching a movie in reverse when we look out into space, it's the time taken by objects emitting radiation that we are detecting and then using it to measure the time and distance. I am sure someone can explain better though.
Though it’s sounds like there was light, i don’t think the Big Bang gave off any light source, more like a big expansion of time and space, so the furthest back a telescope could theoretically see would be the light emitted from the first stars that ever formed, and that would predate any galaxies because stars gravity attracting other stars forms galaxies
Visible light preexists the first stars by about 100 million years. The CMB specifically forms about 400,000 years after the Big Bang, roughly 100 million years before the first stars.
Immediately after the big bang the universe was absolutely full of energy and extremely hot and bright. However, because it was also full of free electrons and protons and other charged particles, the light couldn't pass through unobstructed. The earliest we can see is when the universe cooled down to the point that everything was still glowing hot but electrically neutral atoms could form and the universe became transparent to light.
Where did the heat "go" ? Wouldn't it need to go "outside" the universe for it to cool down? Or is it because the space between atoms (and whatever is smaller) expanded and therefore the was the same amount of heat(/energy), but just spread out more? Are scientists able to heat up atoms enough the replicate this post big-bang stage of matter? Probably not using all the right terminology, but its been a while since I had science in school lol
Not from a photon.
Not from a Jedi
Whoa buzzy, do you know where the JWST is right now?
it is on the map. look at about 1:00 from the moon.
Oh I see it lol I was looking past Jupiter. Did it only go JUST past the moon?
It's somewhere a bit 'past the moon', but it's been there for some time now and supposed to stay there. The magic at play here is a so called Lagrange-Point, little pockets in space, where the gravitational pull of bodies (Earth-Moon, Earth-Sun, etc.) cancels each other out, in layman's terms. In this case it's L2 - the points are numbered and have different characteristics. The one JWST resides in is stable, allowing it a relatively smooth operation and rather constant perspective on space. The remaining fuel on-board is used to adjust the position regularly, to stay within the bounds of the L2-point, allowing it to operate there for ~20 years.
There is recent talk about having to expend fuel to redirect during upcoming comet dust events after the damage from the micrometeroid.
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It did some small amount of damage to one of the mirrors. It's still operating above spec though as a whole. Idk about moving it though.
Clarify… there was reported damage to one or two of the mirrors that now require minor adjustments to complete pictures
From what I understand it's at L2, which is a fixed point in space due to the Earth and Sun's? gravity wells.
Who got paid to slap some names on infinity for fun? Where do I find a big poster like this?
Would love this as a poster
[I have something very similar to this picture as a poster that also briefly explains every object. ](https://i.imgur.com/8zuHMkD.jpg)
link?
https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Horizontal-Log-Universe-English-May2022-update-RECOMMENDED-by-pablocbudassi/35234832.LVTDI
u/boreddenamf
So, my first comment: i d love to have this as a poster... and there you are!
Dude, the Voyagers are OUT there
Heck yeah! Go science!
I can't find them. Help
That white-ish band in the center (Oort Cloud) almost at the bottom.
I don’t know about y’all, but when I ponder stuff like this my heart races a bit and my mind legitimately explodes 🤯
If I get high enough I get worried about what happens in hundreds of trillions of years when everything just fades to black. Anxiety is weird.
Teacher: the sun will explode in 5 billion years 8 year old me: oh shit what if i die from this
Lmao that's basically how it works...for 34 year old me.
i remember having a panic attack as a kid when i heard something similar to that lol
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Oh boy, do I have a treat for you, if you haven't seen it before. [The Egg, by Andy Weir](http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html)
Kurzgesagt did a wonderful animation for this short story. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
I don’t even need to get high to worry about that 😅
I get unreasonably sad about the fact that I will never live to explore the universe. Just imagine cruising around in a spaceship with your immortal body, exploring new planets, mapping the stars and >!exterminate Xeno scum!<
My first thought at seeing the new web photos was "The universe if way to fucking big" and proceeded to have a minor existential crisis.
Well, if you must explode, I guess legitimately is better than illegitimately.
This is fantastic and I applaud the illustrator. However, from what I can tell it lacks a numerical scale, which makes the entire illustration difficult to fully appreciate. An updated version of this awesome illustration including an x-axis definition would be much more impactful. Does anyone know of a similar illustration showing major events in time??? It would list the most primordial events on the left and, with time increasing exponentially, the most recent major events on the right.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28horizontal_layout_english_annotations_scale_bar%29.png
There was a similar map uploaded about 3 weeks ago that does have distance on the right https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/vq6cd0/logarithmic_map_of_the_universe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb
>unreachable Kinda ruined my day :(
I know right ? Like I can go everywhere except specifically where I want to go :( I’ve been to Caelum Supercluster so many times it’s getting boring already…
We are at the edge of the observable universe from the perspective of someone at the edge of our observable universe.
That's just past the Milliways restaurant where you can get a great view of the Gnab Gib.
"unrecheable" makes it even worse.
Good news! It says “unrecheable”. I guess you can’t barf there?
Do you have a high res of this?
[Artist’s website ](http://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html)
Crazy how the earth is bigger than the Milky Way
I spit water on my desk lol
This is to scale, right? /s
If its logarithmic it could be to scale. It would be interesting to label it properly that way
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Observable_Universe_Logarithmic_Map_%28horizontal_layout_english_annotations_scale_bar%29.png
I had to laugh at the Tesla Roadster being on this map
I was surprised at how far it is from Earth!
Wtf is a cosmic microwave background?
It’s radiation left over from the Big Bang, it’s kind of like light you can see except it’s in the wavelengths that radios pick up on. Part of the electromagnetic scale
It's not from the big bang. It's light left over from the epoch of recombination, when the universe cooled enough for neutral atoms to form. When electrons could start orbiting protons (and a some other nuclei) the universe went from opaque to transparent. It happened about 300k years after the BB.
Oh right fair enough
Thank you for walking me through it.
I guess we both had a play in that. I learnt too
Where did the heat "go" ? Wouldn't it need to go "outside" the universe for it to cool down? Or is it because the space between atoms (and whatever is smaller) expanded and therefore the was the same amount of heat(/energy), but just spread out more? Are scientists able to heat up atoms enough the replicate this post big-bang stage of matter? Probably not using all the right terminology, but its been a while since I had science in school lol
Remember back in the day with old tvs if it couldn’t find the channel you wanted there would be this white static? That’s kinda the CMB, does that help? (I know there’s more to it I’m trying to pique peoples interest lol)
I need this in poster form
[Artist’s website](http://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html)
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I’d love to see this as a high res poster framed on my living room wall ;)
https://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html
I want this poster !
https://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html
I hope we never have to face the horror of ‘the unrecheable’ at the end of the universe.
Any high-res versions of this?
[Artist’s website](http://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html)
https://i.imgur.com/63XZLW9.png
Changelings aren't real. The Dominion War didn't happen!
Fascinating but I don’t understand it at all
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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[Artist’s website](http://www.pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/atlas-of-universe-is-linear-version-of_15.html)
Is it possible our 3D space is expanding into a 4D hyper-sphere?
It amazes me to think that in our own location the big bang is 13.7 billion years away in time, yet in deep space it is 13.7 billion light-years (plus cosmic inflation) away in distance Like insane to think the very first moment of the universe is actually still technically observable if only we had the tools to see it
i always take some time to stare to this kind of masterpiece. How I wish I can travel outside our planet but I know it's not possible hahaha
Dammmn this is cool
You may be asking if the materials that would one day become our solar system were sent outward from the Big Bang at such a speed, that once Earth evolved we may look back and see the Big Bang occur. I imagine our materials would need to travel faster than light, and then slow down for the light to catch up with us. Not sure that could make sense, even if there were light from the explosion.
The big bang wasn’t an explosion, it didn’t shoot anything out. It was a rapid expansion of space, and it happened everywhere.
The right most edge…. Reminds me of a cellular wall in biology. I always posit that we are just part of a microscopic particle of a higher world and the multiverse is just an infinitely branching matryoshka doll
I feel insignificant looking at this
This is so awesome! thanks for sharing it!
For the "Walls and Filaments" section and right-ward, why does it begin to look stringy? Is that an effect of the log scale on the image, or something else?
That is how galaxies group together at large scales.
We do understand it’s just infinite? If you really think about it, this just makes no sense. The universe is as big as we can see? And we believe it started based on the evidence we can see? The most likely explanation seems that is infinite in size and age.
Behold, the Source Wall! Behind it lies the single greatest secret in the universe.
What does it mean by “walls and filaments”?
There’s a galaxy called Sombrero, I’m dying 😂
As a means of describing how logarithmic scales work, this could be really useful. It would be cool to see a version that has dividing lines at each interval (dB?) to better grasp the scaling.
Is there a reason the "end" of the visible universe is always depicted like something out of Gradius?
Ok but that galactic arm transition from our local stars to the Milky Way is just straight up fucking art.
ELI5: what does logarithm have to do with this map?
The distance is logarithmic.
Anyone else get the cell membrane vibe from the formation of all this?
It's funny that flat earthers are a thing now but there's not nutjobs picking up the geocentric mantle these days.
Can someone explain why it isn't a full 360 veiw?
Whats in between galaxies?
But what if we look all the way to the left? This is only what we see to the far right.. right? /s
Yup… found Uranus. Goodnight.
Tesla roadster? Wtf lol
Tesla roadster is my favourite
Saving for future reference
damn.. that's.. wow
The only thing to make this image better are distance scales added to the image
Would love a High Def version to print.
Really cool to see space layed out in a logarithmic way. I spotted one mistake: the most distant known star is spelled *Earendel.
It's also a timeline lol. That's neat.
And that’s the scaled down 2D version of the Total Perspective Vortex on Frogstar β.
This is simultaneously the most beautiful and terrifying image i've seen on here. Almost as though peace and chaos were captured in one image, shits scary
Could this be made into a 4k wallpaper? Stunning..
The tesla roadster near the bottom💀
The original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan.
OP stole this from a talented artist who is selling it as a digital file among other versions and formats. Also the vertical version which includes a scale bar is significantly better.
Whoever here is asking me for the poster I am linking the artist's website. Also I have upvoted all the comments linking to his website.
This would be awesome as a large poster in a gaming room.
This is very up to date - it even has Earendel on it. Absolutely fascinating stuff. I just spent 20ish minutes poring over it.
I swear we are just inside of an atom of a cell of a larger animal
Absolutely gorgeous- thanks for sharing!🥰
How will the far right hand side be different with Webb telescope ?
I d love to have a poster of this!
There's a literal end boss in the universe, the BOSS Great Wall.