The Scale of the Universe

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The Scale of the Universe

Post by Miles » March 12th, 2012, 9:25 am

Check out this cool interactive tool to help realize the scale of the universe.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

I love APOD.
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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by CathyCA » March 12th, 2012, 10:38 am

That is WAY cool, and could be a huge time suck for me.

I'm sending the link to my Sam.

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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by OZZIE4DUKE » March 12th, 2012, 10:52 am

Very cool. After looking at the two largest scale screens, I've bookmarked this for the next night I get on the computer at 2 a.m. ... :D B-)

Somewhere in the very large universe, I'm sure I'm going to find a HUGE :9f: :D
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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by Miles » March 12th, 2012, 12:41 pm

CathyCA wrote:That is WAY cool, and could be a huge time suck for me.

I'm sending the link to my Sam.

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I don't know if Sam plays Minecraft, but this model shows it to be larger than Neptune!
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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by windsor » March 12th, 2012, 12:58 pm

Wow. Totally cool, and uber geeky. Thanks for sharing it! :-B :-B
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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by CameronBornAndBred » March 12th, 2012, 3:50 pm

I'm so small.
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Re: The Scale of the Universe

Post by DevilWearsPrada2.0 » March 13th, 2012, 2:07 am

Miles wrote:Check out this cool interactive tool to help realize the scale of the universe.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

I love APOD.
I viewed the entire scale of the universe. Very cool. and loved the background music.
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