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Very well done, from the Planck length to whole (known) of Universe (Click to enjoy it).
Source: The Scale of the Universe - Interactive, Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang.
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Clouds over the Pacific viewed from Space Shuttle.
Credits: NASA
Source: The Campaign for Berkeley and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley.
“What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots…. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth’s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.”
51 years ago Yuri Gagarin completed an orbit of the Earth. So today is the Cosmonautics Day in Russia and some other former USSR countries… And by the way also here in Science is Beauty.
Galaxies form within the complex network of massive filamentary dark matter structures. The region shown is a billion light years across.
Paper at ArXirv.org : Before Stars, Dark Matter Haloes were First Objects in the Early Universe
Source (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich)
The artist’s concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the candidate moons. The other members of the Pluto system are just above the moon’s surface. Pluto is the large disk at center, right. Charon, the system’s only confirmed moon, is the smaller disk to the right of Pluto. The other candidate moon is the right dot on Pluto’s far left.
Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Source: A Ring of Exiles, Scope, MIT