Every page will give you an opportunity to stop and learn about the objects that are located at that particular distance via a link at the bottom of each page. From there, you may zoom out to the next stopping point on our voyage into the depths of outer space by clicking on the "zoom out" link. A page will open with our starting point - Earth. Simply click below on the link that says "Begin". As is this new one produced by the same folks.) More new candidates for farthest galaxy were added to the info page for the Farthest Visible Reaches of Space (Interesting link of note: This Flash "Scale of the Universe" visualization is really cool. EGS8p7 at more than 13.2 billion light years away, and EGS-zs8-1 at 13.1 billion light years away. Here is a unique Solar System distance scale that utilizes sideways scrolling - this is partly to show just how big the Solar System proper is, but also why it's impossible to show the planets to scale on a poster.Īdditionally, here are the newest candidates (as of September and May 2015 respectively) for farthest galaxy yet detected. For information about Educational Standards that this feature meets, please visit the DLESE catalogue's entry for the Cosmic Distance Scale: Updates: 02/03/16 Why was this feature written? The Imagine the Universe! "Ask An Astrophysicist " service gets many questions asking why humans do not travel to the nearest star or galaxy - many people do not realize how spectacularly far away the "nearest" astronomical objects are.Ī note to teachers: This product passed the NASA Education Product review in 2010. The number of zeros increase with each zoom, though not at a constant rate. We instead focus on the large number of zeros that are in astronomical distances when we measure them with a familiar unit like the kilometer. This is not, however, an exercise in "powers of 10" - on the contrary, our goal is to show you astronomical distances without scientific notation. This feature will give an impression of how immense our Universe is by employing a method used many times in "Power of 10" films - that is, starting with an image of the Earth and then zooming out towards the furthest visible reaches of our Universe. The Cosmic Distance Scale By Maggie Masetti
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