GIF of the Universe

[Swede]

[shireen]

1. cool! Where did you get that? nt

[Swede]

3. Just web surfing.

If you right click on it,it's from Princeton.

[htuttle]

2. Space is big. Really big.

You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space....

[mcscajun]

4. You beat me to it.

:hi:

And of course...We are *here*: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy..."

[htuttle]

6. HAD to be posted!

:hi:

[tridim]

10. And that's just *our* bubble..

Apparently there are an infinite amount other bubbles outside, yet parallel to our own. When those bubbles touch they "bang", big.

[mcscajun]

5. Hmmm... The "Dumbbell Nebula": Is that where Bush is going to retire?

:spray:

I know he wanted to send a man to Mars, but why stop there? :bounce:

[tridim]

7. That made me smile really wide.

Best. Graph. EVER!

[The River]

8. Duncan Hunter

wants to build a wall around it to
keep out illegal aliens from
other universes.

[Peace Patriot]

9. As "Edgar," in "Men in Black," says: "Pond scum!"

Edgar: "Everywhere I look, in fact. Nothing but undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum, totally convinced of their own superiority as they scurry about their short, pointless lives."

One of the greatest lines in the history of SF movies!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119654/quotes

And one of the best performances--by Vincent D'Onofrio! (tho it's hard to choose)

[caraher]

11. I grok the vertical axis...

What does the horizontal axis represent?

This will drive me nuts until I find the answer. It's a great "map" though - really gives a sense of perspective

[Bill McBlueState]

14. right ascension

It's a measure of an object's position east or west in the sky, like longitude for celestial objects.

Zero is defined by the location of the sun on the first day of spring, right ascension increases to the east, and it's measured in hours, which are equal to 15 degrees.

[Orsino]

12. God damn it. Which one of you blinked?

Okay, people, let's take it again from 300 milliseconds after the Big Bang.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Mmmmm ... foamy. nt

[krispos42]

15. Kicking for awesomness... n/t