Scientists have produced a map so detailed and extensive that it leaves us stunned.
‘You’re here’. This is the phrase that is at the bottom point of the universe mapcreated by Brice Ménard and Nikita Shtarkman of the Universidad Johns Hopkinsand that it remind us two things: it incredibly huge that is the cosmos and the infinitely small that we are us. It is difficult to describe our place on this map, we already anticipate that we are a small point, and much more to explain the cosmic perspective of the image. If you thought the space travelscon animals as protagonists of cosmic journeys on several occasionscovered long distancenow they seem to shrink to the minimum expression.
The map of the observable universe is so large that it is impossible to publish it completely. Map of the universe
Navigating the vastness of the universe is possible, but you will end up realizing our insignificance
The mapas can be fully seen in the tweet that we show you below these lines, is the sample of one portion of the universe. they have been late 15 years of observation night, through a telescope located in New Mexico, to complete it, but finally we can see our location at the lowest point and around 200,000 galaxies until we meet the observable limit at the end of the map. As those responsible for its creation make clear, the map is really a sphere saturated with pointswhich would be impossible to represent clearly, so it has been decided to show a part of it in two dimensions.
This “map of the observable universe” from @JohnsHopkins is a pretty epic visualization of what we can presently see from Earth, looking back in time. Spoiler alert: It’s vast.https://t.co/yFKJOtBwqB pic.twitter.com/8n2BLEX5Xv
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 17, 2022
Believe it or not every tiny point on the map is a galaxywith millions of stars and planets inside. As we drift away from our position it is more difficult to glimpse these galaxies, so the map point density is lower. Los colors represented measure the distance to galaxies from our position, with blue indicating nearby objects, yellow for objects at an intermediate distance, and red for galaxies further away. You will see that the pattern repeats itself at the end of the map, and this is because quasars are represented herethose extremely distant, luminous and heavy galaxies.
The end of the mapas if it were a border, it is nothing more than the first radiation emitted after the famous Big Bang, which happened around 13.7 billion years ago. At present, radiation cannot be observed as a light source, but as radio waves, in what is known as microwave background radiation. This is the end of the observable universe. Everything that exists beyond has not yet reached our planet and we cannot observe it at the moment. It is, to put it more simply, something older than the universe itself.