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go science!

Apr 23, 2011 Stark Dar link
Apr 23, 2011 space999999 link
neat.
Apr 23, 2011 jamesbuhls link
Wow.... and now all of a sudden I've lost all feeling of significance (cool presentation, though.)
Apr 23, 2011 Pizzasgood link
If it could scroll over to the right by like 5% more, you'd be able to fit my ego in there :P
Apr 23, 2011 Whistler link
Apr 24, 2011 space999999 link
Apr 24, 2011 Whistler link
That's a good one - I'm very visual and it helps to see the relative sizes.
Apr 25, 2011 Surbius link
"... an invisible dot on an invisible dot,"
-THGTTG
Apr 26, 2011 genka link
Of course, most important for anyone on the internet: http://average-penis-size-chart.com/
Apr 26, 2011 Whistler link
I was really glad to see a plain Excel graph there.
Apr 27, 2011 diqrtvpe link
This is fun, too, though unfortunately not scaled proportionally: http://netspaze.com/2010/10/20/heat-scale-of-the-universe/

It's interesting to note that, while Nature has us beaten on nearly every front, surpassing us in size (large and small, as shown by the OP), time (large and small), and high energies, humans have at least won the battle for lowest temperatures! Barring alien researchers, the low temperature laboratories of the world are, quite literally, the coolest places in the universe. :)
May 05, 2011 Kierky link
Cool! Deneb is a Star.
May 05, 2011 Pizzasgood link
Yes, and Corvus is a constellation. A bunch of the names in VO exist out in the real world in some manner, not necessarily related to space. Sedina is a genus of moths, Serco Group, plc is some kind of company, Odia is used by a number of organizations, Azek is a company that makes decks and such, etc.
May 05, 2011 Alloh link
May 10, 2011 cardinalsmurf link
That's pretty far out, man.
Jul 05, 2011 Phaserlight link
Cool gravitational lens, see if you can spot it:



The galactic cluster creating the lens is seven billion light years away, the light reaching us from when the universe was half its present age. This is also from the Hubble deep field experiment.