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Earth's location in the universe, Local Group, Milky Way, Observable universe, Solar System, Supercluster FP category for this image Space Creator Ras67. Support as nominator--Hadseys 01:52, 26 March 2012 (UTC) Comment User:Azcolvin429 is the original creator of this image. It appears Ras67 uploaded an edited version.
Original - A diagram of Earth’s location in the Universe in a series of eight maps that show from left to right, the Earth, inside the Solar System, inside the Solar Interstellar Neighborhood, inside the Milky Way, inside the Local Galactic Group, inside the Virgo Supercluster, inside our local superclusters, and finally finishing inside the entire observable Universe.
Knowledge of the location of Earth has been shaped by 400 years of telescopic observations, and has expanded radically since the start of the 20th century. Initially, Earth was believed to be the center of the Universe, which consisted only of those planets visible with the naked eye and an outlying sphere of fixed stars. [1]
Later these two concepts were combined, so that most of the educated Greeks from the 4th century BC onwards thought that Earth was a sphere at the center of the universe. [2] In the 4th century BC Plato and his student Aristotle, wrote works based on the geocentric model [citation needed]. According to Plato, the Earth was a sphere, stationary ...
By combining data from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, Nasa created an unprecedented image of a galaxy cluster
The first five images captured by the Euclid telescope showcase glimmering clusters of galaxies and stars. The telescope, launched in July, was designed to create the most detailed 3D map of the ...
This file was the picture of the day on August 20, 2006. This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope Earth from space.
Map is one of the most precise measurements of how ‘stuff’ is distributed through the cosmos