At the same time, however, the scale of the universe is roughly 1029 centimeters across, which is enormous by any scale of microphysics. Carroll says it’s perfectly reasonable to ask why.

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This interactive infographic illustrates the scale of over 100 items within the observable universe — ranging from animals and insects, nebulae and stars, to molecules and atoms. Numerous hot ...

One of the fundamental questions humanity has always asked is how big is our Universe?

It’s done logarithmically, using factors of ten, and does a pretty good job. It’s called The Scale of the Universe 2. It takes a few minutes to load, so be patient!

However, it was very difficult to directly observe these winds. With our study, we show that at the early stage of the Universe, every normal galaxy had such winds,” Guo said.

We can design tests to check if the universe obeys the rules of Einstein’s theory. General relativity describes gravity as the curving or warping of space and time, bending the pathways along ...

Made by brothers Cary and Michael Huang, the graphic takes objects of a familiar size — a person, a sunflower, an extinct T-Rex, the Eiffel Tower — and lets you use them as a scale to measure ...