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Map of the Universe (Johns Hopkins University)

92 points by nlolks 4y ago

FailMore 4y ago
From the video it feels like they are selling this poster, and it is pretty cool so fair enough. It reminds me of when I tried to sell a physics poster to celebrate the first anniversary of the gravitational waves discovery. Here was my fundraiser + emotional/inspirational poster video: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-gravitational-waves-anniversary-poster#/(scroll https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-gravitational-waves-a... to see the video). I personally ended up down a few hundred pounds, but it was a fun experience and we raised a bit of money for charity. (Many posters still left in my cupboard, so please get in touch if you're interested - email in profile.)
twic 4y ago
There's also this one: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ I got a two-and-a-bit metre tall version printed by a poster printing place, and hung it in my staircase!
- exhilaration 4y ago
  This is fantastic, it's much more comprehensible than the Hopkins map.
- spindle 4y ago
  Yes, awesome. I used to use that when teaching cosmology.
amelius 4y ago
It would be nice if you could see how fast each galaxy is moving and in what direction.
- spindle 4y ago
  You can see how fast they're moving away from us by their colour. As for how fast they're moving sideways, nobody knows! But it's slow compared to how fast they're moving away from us. (Except for a very very small number of galaxies close to us.)
dang 4y ago
Related: Map of the observable universe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655503 - Nov 2022 (77 comments)
lakomen 4y ago
This all mind blowing. Can we make a guess of what the structure of the universe is? Are there illustrations?
- dnadler 4y ago
  Yes, at the largest scales there are large structures composed of galaxies with voids between them. At smaller scales, we can observer large clusters of galaxies. See, for example, Galactic Filaments [0] Really cool stuff! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament

92 points by nlolks 4y ago

From the video it feels like they are selling this poster, and it is pretty cool so fair enough. It reminds me of when I tried to sell a physics poster to celebrate the first anniversary of the gravitational waves discovery. Here was my fundraiser + emotional/inspirational poster video: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-gravitational-waves-anniversary-poster#/(scroll https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-gravitational-waves-a... to see the video). I personally ended up down a few hundred pounds, but it was a fun experience and we raised a bit of money for charity. (Many posters still left in my cupboard, so please get in touch if you're interested - email in profile.)

twic 4y ago

There's also this one: https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ https://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/ I got a two-and-a-bit metre tall version printed by a poster printing place, and hung it in my staircase!

exhilaration 4y ago
This is fantastic, it's much more comprehensible than the Hopkins map.
spindle 4y ago
Yes, awesome. I used to use that when teaching cosmology.

amelius 4y ago

It would be nice if you could see how fast each galaxy is moving and in what direction.

spindle 4y ago
You can see how fast they're moving away from us by their colour. As for how fast they're moving sideways, nobody knows! But it's slow compared to how fast they're moving away from us. (Except for a very very small number of galaxies close to us.)

dang 4y ago

Related: Map of the observable universe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655503 - Nov 2022 (77 comments)

lakomen 4y ago

This all mind blowing. Can we make a guess of what the structure of the universe is? Are there illustrations?

dnadler 4y ago
Yes, at the largest scales there are large structures composed of galaxies with voids between them. At smaller scales, we can observer large clusters of galaxies. See, for example, Galactic Filaments [0] Really cool stuff! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament