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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To do the animation justice, here's a the link to it in 1080p resolution. (i'll also shamelessly post a link to my Patreon) https://www.patreon.com/inertialobserver …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpsZsWVvLs&feature=youtu.be …
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I forgot to multiply by 2! The observable universe is 2*46.5=93 billion light years across. Thanks to
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Replying to @InertialObservr
Howms’t the fuck did you map the CMB onto a sphere? Where is the Milky Way?
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Replying to @human_wavfunctn
classic Mollewide projection
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