Mar 032014
 

Educational and interesting viewer of how big various elements in our universe are compared to one another.  By Lucky Tran at Policymic.com…

Recently, NASA scientists combined data from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes to discover the most distant galaxy known to date. The galaxy, named Abell2744 Y1, was formed around 13.2 billion years ago when the universe was extremely young. As the universe is expanding, Abell2744 Y1 is currently closer to 40 billion light years away from us, an astounding distance.

via Experience Just How Big the Universe is, in One Mind-Blowing Interactive – PolicyMic.

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