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Largest map of the universe I could find(media.kbin.social)

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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

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Lantech@kbin.social
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I seem to recall a few scifi stories with civilizations like that.

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ivanafterall@kbin.social
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Hitchhiker’s Guide had one that couldn’t see the sky, I remember. So they developed without ever thinking of anything beyond them.

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Nightfall by Isaac Asimov is kinda like that, it’s set on an Earth-analogue planet that orbits a system of six stars, so it’s never actually dark, except for one total eclipse every 3000 years.

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Cover author: Michał Kałużny http://astrofotografia.pl/

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