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Scale of the Universe - V2
Scale of the Universe. Illustration depicting the scale of the Universe. From upper left are the smallest objects: the fundamental particles, atoms, molecules such as DNA, and bacteria. The scale expands further: from a human to the Earth itself to t...
Keywords: ... ebula, particle, physics, planet Earth, scale, size, spiral, star, the Earth, un ...

Cosmic Web
A portion of the cosmic web. The various clumps that are already bound at this time will remain so, but clumps that are not mutually bound together will never become so....
Keywords: ... xy cluster, gravitation, gravity, large-scale structure, superclusters, voids, w ...

Weighing Planets
Animation showing how the planet Jupiter out-masses all of the other planets in the Solar System combined....
Keywords: ... , Mars, mass, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, scale, Solar System, Uranus, Venus, weig ...

Sun Compared to Largest Star - Labelled
Diagram comparing the Sun with Stephenson 2-18. The latter is the current contender for the largest known star, a red hypergiant some 2150 times the diameter of the Sun. The Sun can fit into it 10 billion times!...
Keywords: ... diameter, giant, hypergiant, red giant, scale, schematic, size, stars, Stephenso ...

Magnetosphere - V6
Earth's magnetosphere. Computer artwork showing the interaction of the solar wind with Earth's magnetic field (not to scale). The solar wind is made up of charged particles emitted by the Sun (right). The Earth's magnetic field deflects these particl...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, Blender 3D, bow shock, charged particles, deflect...

Protoplanet Collision
... is an expected by product. The astronomers believe that CO in this system is evidence of a recent planetary collision on the scale of the collision between Earth and another protoplanet that led to the formation of the Moon. ...
Keywords: 3DS_Max, Adobe Photoshop, ALMA, Atacama, carbon monoxide, CO, collision, Galway,...

Surface Mass Ejection
A surface mass ejection (SME), depicted in this illustration, is a relatively recently discovered phenomenon in stellar astrophysics. They are similar to coronal mass ejections but on a far larger scale. During an SME, a star can release hundreds of ...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, astrophysics, destruction, engulfed, gas giant, red giant, SME,...

O'Neill Colony Interior - V1
This is an animation depicting the interior of a type of large-scale space colony called an O'Neill Cylinder, made popular by American Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976). The interpretation in th...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, artificial gravity, Blender 3D, centripetal force, colony, engi...

O'Neill Colony Interior - V2
This is an animation depicting a type of large-scale space colony called an O'Neill Cylinder, made popular by American Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976). Two cylinder are needed to act as a gyro...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, artificial gravity, Blender 3D, centripetal force, colony, engi...

O'Neill Colony Interior - V3
This is an animation depicting a type of large-scale space colony called an O'Neill Cylinder, made popular by American Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1976). Two cylinder are needed to act as a gyro...
Keywords: Adobe Photoshop, artificial gravity, Blender 3D, centripetal force, colony, engi...

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