The Euclid telescope, just launched today, will be able to observe galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. Here’s the largest map I could find (1 billion light years) that includes the Milky Way, Laniakea, the Shapley supercluster, the Perseus–Pisces supercluster, and the South Pole Wall.

https://irfu.cea.fr/Projets/COAST/southpolewall-graphics.html

  • Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Wow I’ve never seen a map of the universe. Amazing. Is this the known/observed universe, or does it include parts that have only been theorized to exist?

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Going through the list of largest structures on Wikipedia trying t o piece it together into anything the mind can grasp at once is difficult. Especially when one has one map image, and another has its own, and how they fit together is confusing. What’s really frightening to me are the voids. I mean space itself is pretty immense, and just tackling the empty distances between our solar system’s planets is hard, but there are places that are devoid of anything for giga-parsecs. Like, completely nothingness.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          Deep Space is neat, but the thing that really gives me a fun sense of philosophical vertigo is Deep Time. My favourite exploration of that is the video Timelapse of the Future, which shows time passing at a rate that doubles every five seconds (ie, time is passing at a rate of one year per second for five seconds, then two years per second for the next five, then four years per second, etc.)

          The last stars in the universe go dark at around the 5-minute mark. The video as a whole is about 30 minutes long.

          If you want a more uplifting view of that future, Isaac Arthur’s Civilizations at the End of Time playlist goes into great detail about how intelligent life can persist throughout that entire duration and still have a good time.