“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Is this named after the Incan (Aztec? Peruvian?? It's been a long time and I'm far from an expert on the subject) mathematical thing of knots in strings?
It's observing the quantum that boggles my mind, observing macroscopic shit like this makes perfect sense to me. Start with a simple telescope to observe the moon, and then just keep increasing the clarity and resolution until you can eventually see galaxies.
I find it helps to kind of break it down into individual components/steps. Telescope in your backyard, telescope on top of a mountain, telescope orbiting the planet, bigger and better telescope sitting at a LaGrange point
There’s a show on YouTube ‘The History of the Universe’ and they go into great detail about how they do this, and there’s plenty of high quality renderings.
I think computer models are a big help. With the measurements of the masses and distances you can figure out which galaxy clusters are members of a bigger structure, the supercluster.
You should checkout the YouTube channel ‘the History of the Universe’ it’s incredible and several episodes explore this topic, really high production and it’s much more informative that the majority of the space documentaries you’ll see on cable’, or even any of the streaming services. I love it!
I'm a fan of both through the wormhole, and how the universe works, narrated by Morgan Freeman and Mike Rowe respectively. History channel used to have a series called The universe, but they haven't really made episodes in quite a long time.
There's a YouTube channel with Matt O'Dowd, PBS SpaceTime, that is up to date and a good watch. I stay up to date with them pretty frequently.
But thank you for the heads up, I will definitely check out his channel!
TrevReactionClicker
Looks like WH40K
sherlockhooves
Largest "structure" we can currently see
EDoPur
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
ClayTiger1
Looks like an eve map… we should avoid those low sec areas…
5ing
Structure? I hardly know her
CheeseIsNaturesFudge
Is this named after the Incan (Aztec? Peruvian?? It's been a long time and I'm far from an expert on the subject) mathematical thing of knots in strings?
Oktay74tn
Yes, the discoverer of Quipu, Hans Böhringer, named the structure after the Andean knotted textile. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu_(supercluster) .
rijstewafels
Everything reminds me of @OPs mom
LanceSackless
TheEternalLordofDarkness2
I don’t think I will ever understand how we can observe this
BoobJiggle
It's observing the quantum that boggles my mind, observing macroscopic shit like this makes perfect sense to me. Start with a simple telescope to observe the moon, and then just keep increasing the clarity and resolution until you can eventually see galaxies.
I find it helps to kind of break it down into individual components/steps. Telescope in your backyard, telescope on top of a mountain, telescope orbiting the planet, bigger and better telescope sitting at a LaGrange point
CaptainHyperbole
There’s a show on YouTube ‘The History of the Universe’ and they go into great detail about how they do this, and there’s plenty of high quality renderings.
Oktay74tn
I think computer models are a big help. With the measurements of the masses and distances you can figure out which galaxy clusters are members of a bigger structure, the supercluster.
BoobJiggle
I was hoping that the 3D representation was going to rotate, but sadly not. Still another good post, thank you Oktay!
CaptainHyperbole
You should checkout the YouTube channel ‘the History of the Universe’ it’s incredible and several episodes explore this topic, really high production and it’s much more informative that the majority of the space documentaries you’ll see on cable’, or even any of the streaming services.
I love it!
BoobJiggle
I'm a fan of both through the wormhole, and how the universe works, narrated by Morgan Freeman and Mike Rowe respectively. History channel used to have a series called The universe, but they haven't really made episodes in quite a long time.
There's a YouTube channel with Matt O'Dowd, PBS SpaceTime, that is up to date and a good watch. I stay up to date with them pretty frequently.
But thank you for the heads up, I will definitely check out his channel!
Oktay74tn
Thank you very much :) .
ItHappenedInThe20thCentury
"The large black region is the Zone of Avoidance..."
me: o__0"
"...a region that is obscured by the Milky Way."
me: oh ok, phew
nasukkin
Yeah, the Zone of Avoidance isn't too mysterious in terms of what it is.
It's what lies behind it that's kinda creepy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
LateKnightDog
At first I thought it was the area that my social anxiety stops me from enjoying