View the Milky Way -- and the Earth

Jun 13, 2003 17:48

This was just sent to me from ekeppich and is truly very cool!

Powers of Ten

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. ...Notice how each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it.

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