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    Seeing Andromeda Galaxy with the Naked Eye

    If we could see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye, this is what it would look like in our sky, to scale. Image source. This is the nearest major galaxy to the Milk Way, where we are. The Spitzer Space Telescope revealed in 2006 that the Andromeda Galaxy contains around one trillion...
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    The entire known Universe in one image

    Here is a image depicting the entire known Universe. It's an illustrated logarithmic scale conception of the observable Universe with the Solar System at the center. It's created by musician and artist Pablo Carlos Budassi, based on logarithmic maps put together by Princeton University...