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Prepare to Explore The Vastness of Space

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Did You Know
In this picture you
can see a man taking
a nap after enjoying a
nice lunch.

Did You Know
Now we zoom out so
that we can see 100
times as much. Before
we could only see the
man and a few things
around him, but now
we see every thing on
his blanket, and much
of the grass.

Did You Know
As we zoom out again,
this time 10,000 times
bigger than the first
picture we notice that
the man is lying near
a busy road and a
boating dock.

Did You Know
Now it becomes very
difficult to see the
man at all. Remember
each time we zoom
out we take in 100
times more space.

Did You Know
Now as we look at 100
Million times as much
area as the first
picture, we begin to
see much of the city,
and Lake Michigan.
The man is far too
small to see, but he is
still in the exact
middle of the picture.

Did You Know
This Picture is ten
billion times larger
than the first picture.
We can now see most
of Chicago, and it's
surrounding areas.

Did You Know
The next picture takes
us out to a size which
is one trillion times
larger than the first
picture. Remember, it
is only 100 times
bigger than the
picture before it.
We can now see much
of the North Eastern
United States.

Did You Know
We have now zoomed
out 100 Trillion times
and have just barely
begun to see the
Earth.
I bet you didn't know
the Earth was that
big, and we have only
just begun.

Did You Know
Here we can see a
picture that is 10,000
Trillion times bigger
than the man sleeping
on his blanket, and we
can't even see the
moon yet.

Did You Know
It takes One Million
Trillion times as much
space as the original
photo before we can
see the Moon's orbit,
but now the Earth
and Moon are so
small we can't see
them.

Did You Know
In this picture we are
looking at an area
which is 100 million
trillion times larger
than the space it takes
for a man to sleep on
a blanket.
At this point we can
begin to see the
Earth's orbit. Even at
this distance, we are
still only in vicinity of
the Earth.

Did You Know
Now we are looking at
a space that is ten
billion trillion times
larger than the first
picture.
We are finally
begining to see the
orbits of the Earth's
neighbor planets.

Did You Know
As we expand our
view by 100 times, we
can now see an area
which is one trillion
trillion times larger
than the first picture.
At this unimaginably
huge distance, we are
just barely begining
to see the orbit of the
planet Jupiter.

Did You Know
At 100 Trillion
Trillion times as much
area, we finally begin
to see much of the
Solar System.
In this picture it is
difficult to see the
inner planets This is
because they are now
so small that it almost
seems as though they
are touching the Sun.

Did You Know
This next picture is
looking at an area
which is ten thousand
trillion trillion times
larger than the area it
takes for a man to lie
on a blanket.
Another way to look
at this is that it is 100
times larger then the
Solar System.
At this distance we
can only see one of
our Sun's neighbor
stars.

Did You Know
This picture doesn't
look much different
than the one before it.
It is ten thousand
times larger then the
Solar System.
At this distance we
can still see only a
couple of stars.

Did You Know
Again, this picture
looks a lot like the one
before it.
It is one million times
larger than the Solar
System.
At this distance we
can still see only a
couple of stars.

Did You Know
Here is another
picture that looks
similar to the ones we
have just seen. This is
because space is made
up of a lot of, well,
space.
It is 100 million times
larger than the Solar
System.
At this distance we
can still see only a
couple of stars.

Did You Know
This picture is ten
Billion times bigger
than the Solar
System. Even at that
great distance there
are still very few stars
close enough to be in
the picture.

Did You Know
Finally, as we look at
an area which in one
trillion times larger
than the Solar
System, we can see
many stars.

Did You Know
Remember, this
picture is 100 times
larger than the
picture before it. This
makes it 100 trillion
times larger than the
Solar System.
At this distance we
can see a small section
of the Milky Way
Galaxy.

Did You Know
We are now looking at
the Milky Way
Galaxy. This picture
shows an area 10,000
Trillion times larger
than the Solar
System, which was
100 Trillion Trillion
times as big as the
man on the blanket in
the park. For a grand
total of One Million
Trillion Trillion times
larger than the man
in the park. And we
are not even close to
the end of space.

Did You Know
In this picture you
can see an area which
is one million trillion
times lager than the
Solar System, or 100
times larger than the
Milky Way Galaxy.

Did You Know
Now we are seeing a
very large area 10,000
times larger than our
galaxy. At this great
distance we can begin
to see what scientists
call the Local Group.
The Local Group is a
group of galaxies
including our own
that are bound
together by their own
gravity.

Did You Know
We are now looking at
an area which is one
million times larger
than the Milky Way
Galaxy.

Did You Know
In this picture you
can see an area which
is 100 million times
larger than the Milky
Way Galaxy.
Think about how
much space you are
looking at. It is
almost
incomprehensible .
Again, all we can see
is a lot of space.

Did You Know
Here we are Looking
at an Area Ten Billion
times larger than the
galaxy we live in. We
could go much further
and still not reach the
end of the Universe.
It is a vastly large and
beautiful place. The
unimaginable is
waiting to be
discovered by you.

Click on the
arrows to
navagate through
our Universe

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