I love this representation of the size of things in the universe so much I have to link to it, even though I prefer to post things that I created more of. Please check it out and play with it. (EDIT: alternative link)

It’s an updated, interactive, unnarrated version of the great educational 1968 short film, the Powers of Ten.

I think the movie and interactive representation show some of the greatest parts of the beauty we can find of nature. We can find that beauty everywhere we look.

Here is a simpler version of the representation of distance scales.

EDIT: Another representation

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