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History of our Universe

14 billion years.

Each bright yellow represents an entire galaxy or cluster of galaxies - and each galaxy contains billions of individual stars and their planets. At this scale, our entire solar system would be far smaller than a single atom. But there you are, in one of those spots, reading this text!

Scale of window: 590 million trillion miles across.

Weight in this volume: 10 billion trillion trillion trillion pounds.
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