But what happens if we zoom out again. Well, we reach the end of greatness . This extremely poetic term summarizes a size ...

And to do that, we need to zoom out beyond the solar system, beyond the Milky Way galaxy, and even beyond all the groups and clusters that comprise our neighborhood of the universe. We need to ...

This Russian-nesting-doll-like distribution of matter has led them to wonder whether the universe is a fractal: a mathematical object that looks the same at any scale, whether you zoom in or out.

This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.

Each time you zoom in a depth, you're magnifying the universe 10x. Every time you zoom out, the bigger objects are one-tenth of their prior size. If you zoom from the biggest object, ...

If you could zoom way out and look at the universe’s big picture, says Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire in England, “it would look really smooth. ...

But if you zoom out to the far reaches of our galaxy, the sun no longer looks like such a giant. In fact, it's pretty average in size. So what is the largest known star in the universe ?

The potential of tablets to transform the way we learn is pretty extraordinary. The first really "wow" app we saw for the iPad was a re-imagining of the periodic table. Wonders of the Universe, a ...

For some reason the universe is full of stars, galaxies, and life. ... But when you zoom out even further, looking at chunks of the universe more than 300 million light-years wide, ...

One newer and equally impressive illustration shows the universe's scale in a vertical image, below. It logarithmically zooms out from infinitesimal "quantum foam" of the fabric of space (a ...

Zoom all the way from the edge of the universe right down to the quantum foam of spacetime. Cary Huang has created The Scale of the Universe, an interactive video that enables viewers to zoom in and ...