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The Euclid telescope, just launched today, will be able to observe galaxies out to 10 billion light-years. Here's the largest map I could find (1 billion light years) that includes the Milky Way, Laniakea, the Shapley supercluster, the Perseus–Pisces supercluster, and the South Pole Wall.

https://irfu.cea.fr/Projets/COAST/southpolewall-graphics.html

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[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oof, I have bad, or maybe good, news for you: this isn't the universe. This is just the local structure of galactic superclusters to us. Just a knot on one of the myriad galactic filaments. 1 Gly out of a 30 Tly (edit: that's not right, closer to 100 GLy) and growing known universe. It's real big, don't get me wrong, but compared to the whole kit and kaboodle it's a rounding error.

SEA has a great video on The Great Attractor (and our local supercluster complex) that I recommend.

For a bigger view, check out https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ , although necessarily this isn't presented geometrically the way the one you linked is.

The Wikipedia list of largest observed structures in the universe is also wild.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The reason it isn't presented geometrically, by the way, is because over such upsettingly huge distances "geometry" loses some meaning. The current position of everything is more a view through time than actual space. So the map of the universe is much more like a timeline than an explorable map.

At the scale of the map up top, a billion years more or less won't make a huge difference, so it makes fair sense to present it that way. But once you're up to 100 Gy and beyond... shit gets weird.

[–] DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow, that video is fantastic-- never heard of SEA before, will definitely be checking out the rest of his videos now!

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SEA, PBS SpaceTime, Astrum, Dr. Becky, Sixty Symbol, and Anton Petrov. With Anton being the one who is very weedsy with a daily video about a recently-published paper. That's the list of YouTubers I think I recommend checking out.

[–] Captspaceballs@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Dont forget cool worlds

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

His videos are mind-bending. Check out the one on Corrupt Stars.