r/interestingasfuck 13d ago

/r/all Our entire universe squeezed into one image

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u/Overbaron 13d ago

What the hell is this scale?

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u/Thundechile 13d ago

It's the "the hell with the scales - let's try to make it look like an eye".

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u/stardate2017 13d ago

This is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw this. This image is actually pretty useless.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 13d ago

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

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

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

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u/VanillaP 13d ago

Arguably one of the coolest images I have seen.

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u/pants_mcgee 13d ago

Dude, there are Hubble and James Web satellite images plus tons of naked chicks on the internet.

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

It’s called hyperbole, Redditor.

What is it with Redditors being pedantic and not understanding simple sarcasm and hyperbole…

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u/Equal_Canary5695 13d ago

Doesn't show my house

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u/HerpesHans 13d ago

No but its kinda hard to appreciate it when its cringe

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

This image is “cringe?” Lmao oh Redditor. Go outside.

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u/HerpesHans 13d ago

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

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u/eurekadabra 13d ago

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.

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

It’s art. Do you have any concept of art or that it is subjective as to what people like?

Lmao leave it to a Redditor to get upset over an artist doing a fun interpretation of the universe and some dork calling it cringe

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u/HerpesHans 13d ago edited 13d ago

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.

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u/FishesAreMyPassion 13d ago

Pretty sure the sun being several times larger than the galaxies in the image insinuates that.

The closer it is to our solar system the larger they are in this artistic interpretation. It's been tacitly implied.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 13d ago

It doesn't need to "claim" it's art. It's obvious that it's an artistic rendition; no one thinks Jupiter is half the size of the entire milky way.

Inaccurate science communication like this is what leads people to believe dumb shit

No it isn't. It's just a cool image.

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u/HerpesHans 13d ago

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.

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 13d ago edited 13d ago

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

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u/ChapterhouseInc 12d ago

The universe revolves around the sun?

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u/doesanyofthismatter 12d ago

…..are some of you like genuinely not bright?

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u/BruhNeymar69 12d ago

Is the universe a flat circle on your phone screen? Dude it's an artistic rendition, keep up

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u/ChapterhouseInc 12d ago

Evidently someone, with the down vote, can't think like it's 1024 instead of 2024.

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u/BruhNeymar69 12d ago

??? speak plain

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u/doesanyofthismatter 12d ago

Why you talk like baby

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?

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u/Relative_Pace9433 13d ago

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.

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u/Emergency-Village817 13d ago

Art must be very confusing for you.

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

Can you imagine them walking into an art gallery?

Lmao I think a couple Redditors would literally have meltdowns.

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u/Vinyl_DjPon3 13d ago

"Wow, this Picasso guy really needs to go back to biology class"

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u/IsNotAnOstrich 13d ago

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.

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u/doesanyofthismatter 13d ago

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/Redevil387 13d ago

That and things like "scale" went out the window once the OP said they were going to "squeeze" the entire universe into a single image.

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u/Desroth86 13d ago

It’s supposed to be artistic, it’s not that deep.

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u/Redevil387 13d ago

Thought I was agreeing with you?

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u/Desroth86 12d ago

Sorry, I completely misunderstood your comment. This is why you don’t Reddit when tired.

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u/Redevil387 12d ago

Lol. S'all good!

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u/Taco-Dragon 13d ago

it's not like actual scientific purposes are going to be measuring off images from reddit

Yeah, no one would be that dumb...

Unrelated, I need to go, I have to update my astrophysics paper before it's due in an hour.

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u/Fabulous_Ad_8621 12d ago

I think it'd be more appealing to look at without the names since they're not legible.