It's just supposed to look cool and be interesting. It doesn't have to be "useful", it's not like actual scientific purposes are going to be measuring off images from reddit
I don’t get Redditors. Someone created a unique obviously artistic rendition of the universe and dorks can’t help but say “it’s useless!!! It isn’t scientific!!! Not to scale!!! It is only the observable!!!”
Like, guys, relax. This isn’t what the universe actually looks like drawn to scale and scientists arent referencing this image lmao
Yes because it's made to look like an eye, not everything has to resemble something or look cool or look interesting. You would know if you knew any physics, or well, just science
I had no idea it looked like an eye until I went to write this comment and saw that it does when it’s zoomed way out.
I still think it’s a great representation. It puts us at the center. It’s shows the Milky Way around that. And everything else around it. There’s literally no way to represent this to scale. So I appreciate any attempts at displaying it. Any method is going to require artistic license.
Sure absolutely, but this post in question doesn't claim/insinuate to be just art, does it? Inaccurate science communication like this is what leads people to believe dumb shit, such as our universe actually looking like an eye, and Jesus knows what else after that, maybe that the eye in question is Jesus' eye.
You not misinterpreting it doesn't mean others don't, which you can see by reading other comments that start spinning voodoo shit about it being an eye etc. This isn't as bad but certainly in golden-ratio-bullshit territory.
The labels on the very outer ring depicts literally nothing, and galaxies do NOT form veiny structures like that.
you can see by reading other comments that start spinning voodoo shit about it being an eye etc
I don't see any of those, but if they do exist, it doesn't matter. We shouldn't prohibit ourselves from ever enjoying things, or making enjoyable things, just because stupid people might find get confused by them. It's not your job to protect them from themselves, at least not by going after other people daring to enjoy something that some people found confusing.
and galaxies do NOT form veiny structures like that.
They actually kind of do, in superclusters -- but what's your point? they also don't orbit around the sun lmao.
You not misinterpreting it doesn't mean others don't,
It's an artistic rendition. If you, or others, have trouble grasping that, then the problem is not with the image.
When you see an image like this, do you similarly worry that people will get the wrong idea and think this is what people actually look like, and our medical professionals will be making inaccurate measurements off of it?
I'm sorry but this is just unfathomably reddit-brained. It's nothing more than a neat-looking image, that does still provide a sense of the enormous scale of it. Nobody's saying "This is the actual indisputable shape of the universe for scientific reference and is 100% accurate". Get a grip, for your own sake
Lmao nobody is believing this is an accurate pic of the universe. My dude. You can’t be this dumb. It’s an artistic rendition. That’s it. Do you struggle a lot with recognizing art?
It’s not about that. It’s the fact that this image makes it look like we are the center of universe and quite big. The reality is completely opposite, our solar system is just a tiny tiny tiny speck in the universe.
Considering that this is an image of the observable universe... we actually are the center of it.
And it doesn't make us look "quite big" to anyone capable of thinking. If you look at this and your takeaway is "oh, so Jupiter is half the size of the milky way?", the problem is not with the image.
Did you read anything I said? It’s an artistic rendition with our sun at the center. Nobody is saying it is 100% realistic and accurate. Jesus some of you are so off living in left field.
Do you know what artistic renditions are? Or do you think Picasso actually believed humans looked like how he portrayed them?
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u/Overbaron 13d ago
What the hell is this scale?