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  2. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] The current version of The Scale of the Universe 2 uses Pixi.js instead of Flash, ported by Matthew Martori. [6] The Scale of the Universe was featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on October 7, 2018. [9] In 2020, animation studio Kurzgesagt released the app Universe in a Nutshell, which took inspiration from The Scale of ...

  3. Cosmic Eye - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic Eye [1] is a short 2012/2018 film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. [2] It shows the largest and smallest well known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a woman called "Louise".

  4. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    According to the theory of cosmic inflation initially introduced by Alan Guth and D. Kazanas, [23] if it is assumed that inflation began about 10 −37 seconds after the Big Bang and that the pre-inflation size of the universe was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's ...

  5. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The universe also has vast regions of relative emptiness; the largest known void measures 1.8 billion ly (550 Mpc) across. [114] Comparison of the contents of the universe today to 380,000 years after the Big Bang, as measured with 5 year WMAP data (from 2008). [115] Due to rounding, the sum of these numbers is not 100%.

  6. List of largest cosmic structures - Wikipedia

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    Discovered through gamma-ray burst mapping. Largest-known regular formation in the observable universe. [8] Huge-LQG (2012–2013) 4,000,000,000 [9] [10] [11] Decoupling of 73 quasars. Largest-known large quasar group and the first structure found to exceed 3 billion light-years. "The Giant Arc" (2021) 3,300,000,000 [12] Located 9.2 billion ...

  7. Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] It is the largest known formation in the universe, exceeding the size of the Huge-LQG by about a factor of two. [7] The overdensity lies at the Second, Third and Fourth Galactic Quadrants (NGQ2, NGQ3 and NGQ4) of the sky. Thus, it lies in the Northern Hemisphere, centered on the border of the constellations Draco and Hercules. The ...

  8. List of smallest exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    A size comparison of the planets in the Kepler-37 system and objects in the Solar System. Below is a list of the smallest exoplanets so far discovered, ...

  9. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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    The following well-known stars are listed for the purpose of comparison. Antares (α Scorpii A) 680 [68] AD Fourteenth brightest star in the night sky. [69] Widely recognised as being among the largest known stars. [19] Betelgeuse (α Orionis) 640, [70] 764 +116 −62, [71] 782 ± 55 [72] AD & SEIS Tenth brightest star in the night sky. [69]