Scale of the Universe - Chart Porn

Scale of the Universe

In: Interactive Science

22 Oct 2010

Use the slider at the bottom to zoom/explore the size of everything in the universe. We’ve seen some other takes on this, but this is the smoothest and most comprehensive of them so far. Thanks to Andrea Bedini for the link.

2 Responses to Scale of the Universe

bill

January 16th, 2011 at 3:40 pm

Thank you for this link. What a great learning tool.

Al

May 8th, 2012 at 1:12 pm

This is awesome – but I kinda miss the little landmark images they used to have along the drag bar at the bottom.

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