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The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

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266 points algorithmista | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 22:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.314s | source
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arkaic ◴[06 Sep 25 02:14 UTC] No.45145988[source]▶
For getting the feel of the milky way, I think there's nothing that is better able to simulate it than a video game, ala Elite Dangerous. I loved to navigate its galaxy map. The size of the Milky Way, the numbers of stars and distances between them are of scale in there if I recall correctly.
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1. xboxnolifes ◴[06 Sep 25 16:06 UTC] No.45150471[source]▶
I recently saw a video that really put in to perspective for me just how impossibly large the Universe is. The idea is finding your way back to Earth from 1 billion light-years away. Not just thr Milky Way, but also how much more there is outside of it.

https://youtu.be/uUuM8NdmaAU?si=7It672waw734e9nK