Astronomers Compile Most Detailed Map of Nearby Universe


	Astronomers Compile Most Detailed Map of Nearby Universe

JohnWaterman

4-4-2009 8:59 AM

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4-4-2009 10:50 AM

tanyamm

This is beyond words. Somewhere in there is our little blue planet.

4-4-2009 5:27 PM

Anomaly100

What a complicated place we live in, but certainly beautiful.

4-5-2009 12:27 AM

solo3

when you see the big picture, it begins to look more and more like a model of an atom or a cell. from the infinately minute to the impossibly large. solo3

4-5-2009 9:09 AM

Elfrida

Wow. Humbling. I'll be using this image in class next term (I teach science) Thanks

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