A scale for the size of the universe, from quarks to quasars

opine the little of the modest and the largest of the orotund in the universe can be a mind - bendingly hard task . This awing interactional computer graphic , that lease ’s you slide from an infinitesimally tiny unknown quark cheese all the agency out to the gigantic Eridanus Supervoid hanging around near the ragged edges of our evident universe , makes it much easy , though .

Made by brothersCary and Michael Huang , the graphic takes objects of a familiar size — a person , a sunflower , an nonextant T - Rex , the Eiffel Tower — and let you employ them as a scale to measure out object of a far less familiar size ( a DNA molecule , a cristal - beam wavelength , Polaris , a dwarf galaxy , and Minecraft ’s world , for instance ) . By either zooming in or out in from a familiarly sized objective in powers of ten ( riffing on the visuals fromthis famous “ Powers of 10 ” telecasting ) , the very large and the very small all of a sudden seem a raft more graspable .

The scrolling graphic , which is all kinds of play , can be foundhere , or just watch the video recording below .