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

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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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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Oof, I have bad, or maybe good, news for you: this isn't the universe. This is just the local structure of galactic superclusters to us. Just a knot on one of the myriad galactic filaments. 1 Gly out of a 30 Tly (edit: that's not right, closer to 100 GLy) and growing known universe. It's real big, don't get me wrong, but compared to the whole kit and kaboodle it's a rounding error.

SEA has a great video on The Great Attractor (and our local supercluster complex) that I recommend.

For a bigger view, check out https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ , although necessarily this isn't presented geometrically the way the one you linked is.

The Wikipedia list of largest observed structures in the universe is also wild.

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wow, that video is fantastic-- never heard of SEA before, will definitely be checking out the rest of his videos now!

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

SEA, PBS SpaceTime, Astrum, Dr. Becky, Sixty Symbol, and Anton Petrov. With Anton being the one who is very weedsy with a daily video about a recently-published paper. That's the list of YouTubers I think I recommend checking out.

[–] CletusVanDamme@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know how Anton does it. There is something new every day and each video has tons of detail.

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