Insight Into: Scale of the Universe

 

 

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach

 

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA except:

 

·       Milky Way panorama courtesy of ESO/S. Brunier

·       Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory

·       Andromeda Galaxy image courtesy of Bill Schoening, Vanessa Harvey/REU program/NOAO/AURA/NSF

·       Redshift animation courtesy of ESO

·       Centaurus A visible-light images courtesy of ESO

 

 

Written by Tracy Vogel

Designed by Marc Lussier

Music courtesy of Associated Production Music

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 Large Earth in the foreground, small Sun in the background. 

Text, We live on a planet that orbits a single star. 

The Milky Way galaxy from the side. 

Text, This star is just one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. 

The Milky Way galaxy from the top. It zooms away into the distance with other galaxies. 

Text, The Milky Way is just one of the hundred billion or so galaxies in the universe. 

Endless galaxies zoom by.