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Biggest Thing in Universe

Posted on January 24, 2015 by willymanng

Things in the universe comes in all shapes and sizes, there are planets thirty times heavier than Jupiter, stars thousands of times larger than our sun, galaxies millions of light years wide… However, what is the largest object in the universe? For a long time the answer used to be the Sloan Great Wall – a cosmic structure formed … Continue reading Biggest Thing in Universe → Continue reading →

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Are We Always Living in the Past?

Posted on January 24, 2015 by lukegchapman

It takes light time to travel any distance. It takes light one-second to travel to Earth from the Moon, and about 8 minutes for light to reach Earth from the Sun (Bennett). So really when we look up at the moon, we are seeing the Moon one-second ago, and when we first see the sun… Continue reading →

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So on the Topic of Space Though

Posted on January 24, 2015 by peace4life0

I mean, it’s been said that perspective is everything right? The thing is, there’s some things that we can’t even wrap our perspective around. There’s really really small things, like the million little individual microbes/cells doing their own thing on the end of your left pinky. Then there’s things that are just… They’re just huge. … Continue reading So on the Topic of Space Though → Continue reading →

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A Mole of Moles

Posted on January 24, 2015 by pMurs

Like most freshmen at Vanderbilt, I took Chemistry 102a during my first semester. On the first day of class, we (ostensibly, seeing as I slept through it) discussed the concept of a mole. A mole is a unit of measurement, generally used to describe the number of atoms or molecules of something, of which there […] Continue reading →

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A Human Perspective of the Cosmic Calendar

Posted on January 24, 2015 by adyacob

In this blog post, I will be discussing the advent of the Cosmic Calendar. Astrophysicists developed the Cosmic Calendar as …

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We Are the Universe

Posted on January 24, 2015 by emilyksharp

When we look up at the night sky or try to count the number of galaxies we think might exist – a …

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The Scale of the Universe

Posted on January 24, 2015 by revanth111

(Source) After watching the Powers of Ten video and viewing the interactive Scale of the Universe website, it seems to me that Earth is like a speck of dust floating among countless others. In fact, the Powers of Ten video expands our perspective to 100 million light years into the emptiness of space where galaxies […] Continue reading →

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And I thought Texas was big..

Posted on January 24, 2015 by jshabazz93

That photo you’re looking at is the observable universe as we know it; it holds all we know and believe to exist from as large as a star to as small as an electron, from as physical as a touch to as obscure as a thought. The small point on it that says “Local Supercluster” […] Continue reading →

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Human History Measured in Minutes

Posted on January 24, 2015 by ctogrye

Hey Listeners! Today I will be discussing the Cosmic Calendar. What is the Cosmic Calendar? This a demonstrative tool by which the age of the universe is elucidated. The universe is believed to be approximately 13.8 billion years old, however in this representation it is proportionally condensed to the length of a year. This means that […] Continue reading →

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The (Interactive) Size of the (Known) Universe

Posted on January 24, 2015 by dillonkoval

I have often caught myself wondering just how big are the largest of galaxies, and how small are the smallest building blocks of matter. There is an awesome tool developed in part by NASA that allows for an exploration from the smallest lengths we believe are possible to the entirety of the Universe (that we […] Continue reading →

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