Click on the image to see a larger map of the nearby universe, with us at the center.
As described by Gregg Easterbrook: “The map contains about 100,000 dots. The dots are not stars; each dot represents a galaxy, and galaxies are thought to average about 100 billion stars each. Thus the area depicted contains holds roughly 10 to the 15th power stars, a number far too huge to bother attempting to fathom. And the map merely shows galaxies nearby.”
Awesome.
More images here, created by Chris Fluke of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
No wonder we lose our car keys sometimes…
What does “nearby universe” mean?
The image referenced represents 100, 000 galaxies. The observable universe is estimated to contain 200 billion to 2 trillion galaxies. Galaxy- Wikipedia.