The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from our perspective The CMB defines the size of our observable universe, stretching ~46.5 billon light years across The Milky Way is .003 times as small as the glowing blue dot at the center, which itself is ~230 million light years acrosspic.twitter.com/f6jzgtBpm5
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I forgot to multiply by 2! The observable universe is 2*46.5=93 billion light years across. Thanks to
@astronomicca for pointing this out!Show this thread -
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God help us when you figure out how to foley.
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