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  2. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] The current version of The Scale of the Universe 2 uses Pixi.js instead of Flash, ported by Matthew Martori. [6] The Scale of the Universe was featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on October 7, 2018. [9] In 2020, animation studio Kurzgesagt released the app Universe in a Nutshell, which took inspiration from The Scale of ...

  3. Universe - Wikipedia

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    The observable universe contains as many as an estimated 2 trillion galaxies [95] [96] [97] and, overall, as many as an estimated 10 24 stars [98] [99] – more stars (and earth-like planets) than all the grains of beach sand on planet Earth; [100] [101] [102] but less than the total number of atoms estimated in the universe as 10 82; [103] and ...

  4. The Sand Reckoner - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes then concluded that the diameter of the Universe was no more than 10 14 stadia (in modern units, about 2 light years), and that it would require no more than 10 63 grains of sand to fill it. With these measurements, each grain of sand in Archimedes's thought-experiment would have been approximately 19 μm (0.019 mm) in diameter.

  5. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    2.764 Rm - 292.2 billion light-years – circumference of the observable universe, as it is in the shape of a sphere. ≈10 10 10 122 light-years – the possible size of the universe after cosmological inflation .

  6. Observable universe - Wikipedia

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    According to the theory of cosmic inflation initially introduced by Alan Guth and D. Kazanas, [23] if it is assumed that inflation began about 10 −37 seconds after the Big Bang and that the pre-inflation size of the universe was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's ...

  7. Big Bang - Wikipedia

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    When the size of the universe at Big Bang is described, it refers to the size of the observable universe, and not the entire universe. [ 145 ] Another common misconception is that the Big Bang must be understood as the expansion of space and not in terms of the contents of space exploding apart.

  8. Particle horizon - Wikipedia

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    Much like the concept of a terrestrial horizon, it represents the boundary between the observable and the unobservable regions of the universe, [1] so its distance at the present epoch defines the size of the observable universe. [2] Due to the expansion of the universe, it is not simply the age of the universe times the speed of light ...

  9. Expansion of the universe - Wikipedia

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    The history of the universe after inflation but before a time of about 1 second is largely unknown. [22] However, the universe is known to have been dominated by ultrarelativistic Standard Model particles, conventionally called radiation, by the time of neutrino decoupling at about 1 second. [23]