[Credit: 2MASS, T. H. Jarrett, J. Carpenter, & R. Hurt]
1 posted on
06/14/2011 3:03:51 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Off topic, but every time I sit and really think about that picture, I can’t help but think of Eco nuts and how ‘important’ they believe their work is.
Considering the Earth is about the size of a quark in relation to that graph, methinks their self-image is vastly ahem... inflated.
To: SunkenCiv
This plot shows nearly 50,000 galaxies in the nearby universe ... Nearby Universe?!? My dictionary defines universe as "All existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos." Has this definition 'slipped' or is it misused? I have heard terms like 'Super-Group' and "Super Bubble" used for groupings of galaxies but I thought that Universe was the ultimate, a unique term referring to EVERYTHING!
6 posted on
06/14/2011 4:14:14 AM PDT by
SES1066
(Michael Moore - a pernicious progluddite of socialism!)
To: SunkenCiv
7 posted on
06/14/2011 4:17:15 AM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: SunkenCiv
Who writes this stuff?
The only 'nearby' universe is our own universe, the one that we're in.
A galaxy group is not another universe.
There are those who speculate that there are other parallel universes, but that has not been confirmed and as far as I know we have no way of observing them.
Nice picture though.
8 posted on
06/14/2011 4:31:12 AM PDT by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow. It’s hard for me to get my puny human brain around just how vast the Universe is.
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